Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyre dead serious its usually pretty funny. So actually I think that anything that you say means exactly what you say and its opposite.
- 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. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel
- Jim Morrison

I believe in a long, prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown. Our pale reasoning hides the infinite from us
- Jim Morrison

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

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

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 pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act.
- 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

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

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

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.
- Jim Morrison

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on and individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you.
- Jim Morrison

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

There are things known, and there are things unknown, And in between are the Doors.
- Jim Morrison

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

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
- 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

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

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
- Jim Morrison

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
- Jim Morrison

Drugs are a bet with your mind.
- 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

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 future's uncertain and the end is always near.
- Jim Morrison

The time to hesitate is through.
- Jim Morrison

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity.
- 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

You're all a bunch of fuckin' slaves!
- Jim Morrison

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

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

Actually I don't remember being born, It must have happened during one of my black outs.
- 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 experience.
- Jim Morrison

When play dies it becomes the Game When sex dies it becomes Climax.
- Jim Morrison

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.
-Jim Morrison

Q: Why did chicken Jim Morrison cross the road?
A: To break on through to the other side.

How many Ray Manzareks does it take to change a lightbulb?
One to make excuses as to why it burned out. One to write a book about it still being lit. And, finally............ one to take the parts and make money off them!!