Quotes By Jim Morrison

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

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.'

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

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

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

Music inflames temperament.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

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

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.

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.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

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.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

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

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

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.