Quotes By Jim Morrison

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

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

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.

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

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.

The Night is young & full of rest, I can't describe the way she's dress'd, She'll pander to some strange requests, Anything that you suggest, Anything to please her guest.

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.

The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.

Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day's divinity! First thing you see!!

I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.

Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.

Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting, Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v.