30-Plus Jim Morrison Quotes That Say Who He Really Was
Jim Morrison was born James Douglas Morrison in 1943. He died in 1971 aged just 27 years. He died painfully young. But he didn’t live a wasted life. He was a poet, a musician, a philosopher, an intellectual person. His accomplishments to the world of arts and popular culture will do so many three times his age great honor. It is approaching fifty years since Jim Morrison left this world but we have collected some Jim Morrison quotes to help remind us who he was. Who he really was.
Jim Morrison Quotes
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” ―
“There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.”
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” ―
“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.”
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.”
“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”
“Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality.”
“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.”
“I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.”
“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.”
“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”
“When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.”
“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”
“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”
“Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin
We could plan a murder
Or start a religion.”
Fate Quotes to rethink your life journey
“Death Makes Angels of us all.”
“O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.”
“Film spectators are quiet vampires.”
“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.”
“Man, I am sick of doubt.”
“I’ll never wake up in a good mood again. I’m tired of these stinky boots”
“The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…”
“Well, that’s New York for ya. The only people who rush the stage are guys.”
“I don’t think there should even be a president, man. I think we should have total democracy.”
“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”
“There’s nothing wrong with being a large mammal.”
“Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my blackouts.”
“I am troubled, immeasurably
by your eyes.
I am struck by the feather
of your soft reply.
The sound of glass
speaks quick, disdain
and conceals
what your eyes fight
to explain.”
―Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1
“No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.”
“Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal.”
“No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”
“Do you think you’ll be the guy to make the queen of the angels sigh?”
“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.”
“Let’s swim to the moon
Let’s climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.”
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.”
“Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.”
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