110+ Jim Morrison Quotes On Death, Media And Fear

Jim Morrison was an American singer-songwriter and poet who rose to fame as the lead singer of the rock band The Doors. He was known for his poetic lyrics, wild personality and charismatic stage presence. He is widely regarded as one of the most iconic and influential frontmen in rock music history. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Jim Morrison on love, death, media.

Top 10 Jim Morrison Quotes

1. Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
2. 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.
3. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
4. 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.
5. Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
6. It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
7. Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.
8. We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
9. Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.
10. Where's your will to be weird?

Jim Morrison Image Quotes

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. — Jim Morrison

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

Where's your will to be weird? — Jim Morrison

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion. — Jim Morrison

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

Jim Morrison Short Quotes

• I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!
• Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
• Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
• The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
• A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
• Take it easy baby, take it as it comes - specialize in having fun!
• No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
• I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
• There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.
• When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Jim Morrison Quotes About Love

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

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

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

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. — Jim Morrison

Love cannot save you from your own fate. — Jim Morrison

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

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. — Jim Morrison

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding. — Jim Morrison

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

Jim Morrison Quotes About Death

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

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it — Jim Morrison

Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws — Jim Morrison

I pressed her thigh and death smiled — Jim Morrison

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

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. — Jim Morrison

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements. — Jim Morrison

All games contain the idea of death. — Jim Morrison

All our songs are about love, travel and death. — Jim Morrison

Death Makes Angels of us all. — Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison Quotes About Life

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. — Jim Morrison

We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets — Jim Morrison

Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be? — Jim Morrison

This is the strangest life I've ever known. — Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison Quotes About Art

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

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. — Jim Morrison

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives. — Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison Quotes About Freedom

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

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

How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? — Jim Morrison

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. — Jim Morrison

The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them . . . Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music. — Jim Morrison

I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can't drag people through. — Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison Quotes About People

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

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

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

People are strange when you're a stranger. — Jim Morrison

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

The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet. — Jim Morrison

the human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon Ship of Fools — 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

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

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. — Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison Famous Quotes And Sayings

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. — Jim Morrison

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

I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever. — Jim Morrison

Where's your will to be weird? — Jim Morrison

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

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

Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive? — 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

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 am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain. — Jim Morrison

The Night is young & full of rest I can’t describe the way she’s dress’d She’ll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest Anything to please her guest. — Jim Morrison

Drugs are a bet with your mind. — Jim Morrison

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. — Jim Morrison

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

Blood is the rose of mysterious union. — Jim Morrison

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

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

Getting drunk . . . you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like . . . I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . . — Jim Morrison

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. — Jim Morrison

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands. — Jim Morrison

Film spectators are quiet vampires. — Jim Morrison

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

Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science. — Jim Morrison

Cancel my subscription to the resurrection. — Jim Morrison

When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience. — Jim Morrison

A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving — Jim Morrison

I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing. — Jim Morrison

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun. — Jim Morrison

Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind. — Jim Morrison

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking. — Jim Morrison

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science. — Jim Morrison

Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows. — Jim Morrison

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

The gate is straight, Deep and wide, Break on through to the other side... — Jim Morrison

In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music. — Jim Morrison

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

Music inflames temperament. — Jim Morrison

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... — Jim Morrison

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

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

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

I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play. — Jim Morrison

In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises. — Jim Morrison

...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms. — Jim Morrison

My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile. — Jim Morrison

She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus. — Jim Morrison

A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments. — Jim Morrison

Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v. — Jim Morrison

Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on?? — Jim Morrison

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see. — Jim Morrison

The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness. — Jim Morrison

Music is your only friend until the end... — Jim Morrison

All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug. — Jim Morrison

I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space or time. I can summon the dead. I can perceive events on other worlds, in my deepest inner mind, & in the minds of others. I can I am — Jim Morrison

You cannot petition the lord with prayer! — Jim Morrison

We could plan a murder Or start a religion. — Jim Morrison

We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves — Jim Morrison

The time you wait subtracts the joy The heads the angel you destroy — Jim Morrison

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

Life Lessons by Jim Morrison

1. Jim Morrison taught us to be true to ourselves and to follow our dreams, no matter how unconventional they may seem. He also showed us that it's important to be open to new experiences and to take risks in order to find our own path.
2. Jim Morrison also showed us that it's important to stay humble and to appreciate the small moments in life. He taught us to be mindful of our actions and to stay true to our values.
3. Lastly, Jim Morrison taught us to be fearless in the face of adversity and to never give up on our dreams. He showed us that it's important to stay passionate and to never let anyone stand in the way of our goals.