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Quotes by Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison

“People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow lifes circumstances to push them down and hold them under.”

“Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind.”

“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything.”

“Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.”

“Music inflames temperament.”

“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”

“The time to hesitate is through.”

“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.”

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

“Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.”

“Adolf Hitler is still alive... I slept with her last night.”

“Without touch we are but hunks of wood.”

“Newton, forgive me.”

“the futures uncertain and the end is always near”

“Nobody gets out of here alive”

“The blue bus is calling us.”

“I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. 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 towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom.”

“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.”

“...And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted--nevermore!”

“May today mark the beginning of many new joys and accomplishments... and a continuation of all of the good things that you have alreadyachieved.”