56+ Best Jim Morrison Quotes: Exclusive Selection

James Douglas Morrison was an American singer, songwriter and poet, who served as the lead vocalist of the rock band the Doors. an iconic band that would have hits like “Light My Fire,” “Hello, I Love You,” “Touch Me” and “Riders on the Storm.” Inspirational Jim Morrison quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.

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Most Famous Jim Morrison Quotes

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

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward. Jim Morrison

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

Where’s your will to be weird? Jim Morrison

That’s what real love amounts to  letting a person be what he really is 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, Jim Morrison quotes on love

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

There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors. Jim Morrison

The future is uncertain but the end is always near. 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. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. Jim Morrison

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. Jim Morrison

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. Jim Morrison

There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors. Jim Morrison

Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me. Jim Morrison

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. Jim Morrison

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. Jim Morrison Quotes

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. 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. Jim Morrison

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me. Jim Morrison

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

Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal Jim Morrison

Most people love you for who you pretend to be. Jim Morrison

There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him. Jim Morrison

How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it’s a lie  people claim they want to be free  everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that’s bullshit! 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? Jim Morrison

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. Jim Morrison

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

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

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are There can’t be any large scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first. Jim Morrison

Drugs are a bet with your mind. Jim Morrison

The future is uncertain but the end is always near. Jim Morrison

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

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

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

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 Jim Morrison

I’ll never wake up in a good mood again. I’m tired of these stinky boots. Jim Morrison

You feel your strength in the experience of pain. Jim Morrison

Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate. Jim Morrison

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. Jim Morrison

Could any Hell be more horrible than now, and real? Jim Morrison

No one here gets out alive. Jim Morrison

Well, I’ve been down so Goddamn long, that it looks like up to me. Jim Morrison

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. Jim Morrison Quotes

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. Jim Morrison

People are strange when you’re a stranger. Jim Morrison

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? Jim Morrison

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

Where’s your will to be weird? Jim Morrison

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood maturity there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments. Jim Morrison

I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames. Jim Morrison

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

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

Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. 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

There’s nothing wrong with being a large mammal. Jim Morrison