Quotes by Jim Morrison

“You cannot petition the Lord with prayer.”

“Democracy is not often practiced when it is being protected.”

“People are companies too.”

“Twas not a stone but first a word to will our evil way.”

“The first goal of man should be to defeat himself.”

“Democracy is not often practiced while trying to protect it.”

“as i look back...over my life...i am struck by post cards...ruined snapshots...faded posters...of a time..i cant recall”

“Who cares man? (to Ed Sullivan after he cancelled The Doors next six preformances because Jim said higher on the Ed Sullivan Show.”

“Cancel my subscription to the resurection. Send my creditials to the house of detention.”

“Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyre dead serious its usually pretty funny. So actually I think that anything that you say means exactly what you say and its opposite.”

Thats what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. Its true, were locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like youre trying to steal their most precious possession.

I am troubled, immeasurablyby your eyes. I am struck by the featherof your soft reply.The sound of glassspeaks quick, disdainand concealswhat your eyes fightto explain.

People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.

No one here gets out alive.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, youve seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There cant be any large-scale revolution until theres a personal revolution, on an individual level. Its got to happen inside first.

Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts

Ive noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyre serious, theyre usually pretty funny.