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
