Jim Morrison Quotes - Page 2

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

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 think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

No one here gets out alive.

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.

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

Where's your will to be weird?

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

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality...

We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves

People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

The time to hesitate is through.

All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

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

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

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

Music is your only friend until the end...

I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.

Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?

There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.

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