Quotes by Jim Morrison

Actually I dont remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

Ill never wake up in a good mood again.Im tired of these stinky boots

Were reaching for death on the end of a candle Were trying for something thats already found us

There are things known and there are things unknownand in between are the doors.

Listen, real poetry doesnt say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, its to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

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.

Love is a dream. Dreams are good, but do not be surprised if you wake up in tears.

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.

Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.

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.

People are strange when youre a stranger.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

We are content with the given in sensations quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.

It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...