Quotes by Jim Morrison

About Jim Morrison:

James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American singer, songwriter and poet best remembered as the lead singer of The Doors.
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Jim Morrison

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?

Jim Morrison

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

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

No one here gets out alive.

Jim Morrison

People are strange . . .

Jim Morrison

What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down

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

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

Jim Morrison

Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts

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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 unt...

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I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

Jim Morrison

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

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

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 w...

Jim Morrison

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

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...

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People are strange when you're a stranger.

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People fear death even more than they fear pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.

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Why the desire for death. A clean paper or pure white wall. One false line, a scratch, a mistake. Unerasable. So obscureby adding million other tracings, blend it, cover over. But the original scratch remains, written in gold blood, shining. Desire f...

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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

Author Bio

  • NameJim Morrison
  • Descriptionlead singer of The Doors
  • BornDecember 8, 1943
  • DiedJuly 3, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Film Director; Singer-songwriter; Writer; Composer; Musician; Actor