Jim Morrison Quotes

"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."

"I've always liked reptiles. I used to see the universe as a mammoth snake, and I used to see all the people and objects, landscapes, as little pictures in the facets of their scales. I think peristaltic motion is the basic life movement. Swallowing,"

"Hatred is a very underestimated emotion."

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

"When you make your peace with authority, you become authority."

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."

"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."

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors."

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

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."

"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything."

"The time to hesitate is through."

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

"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."

"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 securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?"

"I am the lizard king. I can do anything."

"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."

"I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown."

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

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