Jim Morrison Quotes

Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal

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.

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

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.

I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are…There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.

Where’s your will to be weird?

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

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.

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

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

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

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

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.

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.