Words matter. These are the best Jim Morrison Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
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.
Music inflames temperament.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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.
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
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.
Film spectators are quiet vampires.
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
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.
Where’s your will to be weird?
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
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.
Drugs are a bet with your mind.
This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.