Jim Morrison Quotes (34 quotations)
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1. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. - Jim Morrison
2. 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.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence. - Jim Morrison
3. Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws. - Jim Morrison
4. Drugs are a bet with your mind. - Jim Morrison
5. Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. - Jim Morrison
6. Film spectators are quiet vampires. - Jim Morrison
7. 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. - Jim Morrison
8. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical. - Jim Morrison
9. I am the lizard king. I can do anything. - Jim Morrison
10. I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. - Jim Morrison
11. I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something. - Jim Morrison
12. I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free-more than anything else... A person has to be willing to give up everything-not just wealth-all the bullshit he's been taught-all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that. - Jim Morrison
13. 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. - Jim Morrison
14. 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 are 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. - Jim Morrison
15. I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything. - Jim Morrison
16. If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. - Jim Morrison
17. If natural energy and impulses are too severely suppressed for too long, they become violent. It's natural for something that's been held under pressure to become violent in its release. A person who is too severely suppressed experiences so much pleasure in those violent releases... they're probably rare and brief. So, he becomes infatuated with violence. - Jim Morrison
18. I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean catharsis for the audience but a purgation of emotions for the actors themselves. The audience is just a witness to the event taking place on stage. - Jim Morrison
19. I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. - Jim Morrison
20. Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. - Jim Morrison
21. 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. - Jim Morrison
22. Let's just say I was testing the bounds of society. I was just curious. - Jim Morrison
23. Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you. - Jim Morrison
24. Most people love you for who you pretend to be... To keep their love, you keep pretending-performing. You get to love your pretense... It's true, we're locked in an image, an act. And, the sad thing is, people get so used to their image-they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And, if you try to remind them, they hate you for it. They feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession. - Jim Morrison
25. 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 ... - Jim Morrison
2. 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.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence. - Jim Morrison
3. Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws. - Jim Morrison
4. Drugs are a bet with your mind. - Jim Morrison
5. Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. - Jim Morrison
6. Film spectators are quiet vampires. - Jim Morrison
7. 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. - Jim Morrison
8. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical. - Jim Morrison
9. I am the lizard king. I can do anything. - Jim Morrison
10. I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. - Jim Morrison
11. I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something. - Jim Morrison
12. I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free-more than anything else... A person has to be willing to give up everything-not just wealth-all the bullshit he's been taught-all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that. - Jim Morrison
13. 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. - Jim Morrison
14. 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 are 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. - Jim Morrison
15. I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything. - Jim Morrison
16. If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. - Jim Morrison
17. If natural energy and impulses are too severely suppressed for too long, they become violent. It's natural for something that's been held under pressure to become violent in its release. A person who is too severely suppressed experiences so much pleasure in those violent releases... they're probably rare and brief. So, he becomes infatuated with violence. - Jim Morrison
18. I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean catharsis for the audience but a purgation of emotions for the actors themselves. The audience is just a witness to the event taking place on stage. - Jim Morrison
19. I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. - Jim Morrison
20. Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. - Jim Morrison
21. 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. - Jim Morrison
22. Let's just say I was testing the bounds of society. I was just curious. - Jim Morrison
23. Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you. - Jim Morrison
24. Most people love you for who you pretend to be... To keep their love, you keep pretending-performing. You get to love your pretense... It's true, we're locked in an image, an act. And, the sad thing is, people get so used to their image-they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And, if you try to remind them, they hate you for it. They feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession. - Jim Morrison
25. 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 ... - Jim Morrison
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