Quotes from Jim Morrison


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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.


It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.


Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.


Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.


Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.


When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.


I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.


The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.


I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.


This is the strangest life I've ever known.


I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.


Where's your will to be weird?


Drugs are a bet with your mind.


Film spectators are quiet vampires.


Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.


I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.


Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.


Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.


We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.


A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.