Quotes By Jim Morrison

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. It's all in how you carry it.

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

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

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us.

The future's uncertain, and the end is always near.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution.

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

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.

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

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

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.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

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

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.