Top 25 Jim Morrison Quotes

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.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
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
Music inflames temperament.
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
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
Film spectators are quiet vampires.
Jim Morrison
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
Jim Morrison
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
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
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Jim Morrison
Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
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
Where’s your will to be weird?
Jim Morrison
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Jim Morrison
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
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
Drugs are a bet with your mind.
Jim Morrison
This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
Jim Morrison