Top 140 Jim Morrison Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “No one here gets out alive.”

— Jim Morrison

Featured in: Music Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Hard Hitting Quotes, Depressing Quotes

2. “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

Featured in: Deep Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Fear Quotes

3. “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.”

— Jim Morrison

4. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”

— Jim Morrison

Featured in: Friendship Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Meaningful Friendship Quotes, True Friendship Quotes

5. “The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”

— Jim Morrison

6. “There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors.”

— Jim Morrison

Featured in: Artist Quotes

7. “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 until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”

— Jim Morrison

Featured in: Motivational Quotes, Identity Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Individuality Quotes

8. “You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”

— Jim Morrison

9. “Where’s your will to be weird?”

— Jim Morrison

Featured in: Music Quotes, Artist Quotes, Creative Quotes

10. “It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.”

— Jim Morrison

11. “People are strange when you’re a stranger.”

— Jim Morrison

Featured in: Lonely Quotes

12. “The highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just in between.”

— Jim Morrison

13. “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

Featured in: Existentialism Quotes, Pain Quotes, Hurt Quotes

14. “All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.”

— Jim Morrison

Featured in: Challenges Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Quotes About Fire

15. “I am the Lizard King, I can do anything!”

— Jim Morrison

Featured in: Boldness Quotes, Crazy Quotes

16. “Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.”

— Jim Morrison

Featured in: Depressing Quotes

17. “Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts.”

— Jim Morrison

Featured in: Sarcastic Quotes

18. “I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.”

— Jim Morrison

19. “Take it easy baby, take it as it comes – specialize in having fun!”

— Jim Morrison

Featured in: Crazy Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes, Joy Quotes, Fun Quotes

20. “Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.”

— Jim Morrison

21. “No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”

— Jim Morrison

22. “Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.”

— Jim Morrison

23. “We want the world, and we want it now!”

— Jim Morrison

Featured in: Crazy Quotes, Longing Quotes

24. “The time to hesitate is through.”

— Jim Morrison

Featured in: Boldness Quotes, Commitment Quotes

25. “Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”

— Jim Morrison

Featured in: Suffering Quotes

26. “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

Featured in: Intelligent Quotes, Hilarious Quotes

27. “Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin.”

— Jim Morrison

28. “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

29. “This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.”

— Jim Morrison

30. “Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we are stoned. Immaculate.”

— Jim Morrison

31. “Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal.”

— Jim Morrison

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

— Jim Morrison

33. “Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality.”

— Jim Morrison

34. “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

35. “Drugs are a bet with your mind.”

— Jim Morrison

36. “The Gate is Straight, Deep and Wide; Break On Through to the other side.”

— Jim Morrison

37. “Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.”

— Jim Morrison

38. “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

39. “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

40. “Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That’s all it was curiosity.”

— Jim Morrison

41. “Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I’ll give you love unfolding.”

— Jim Morrison

Featured in: Quotes About Songs

42. “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

Featured in: Real Quotes

43. “Twentieth-century culture’s disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they’re emotionally dead.”

— Jim Morrison

44. “A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.”

— Jim Morrison

45. “You cannot petition the Lord with prayer.”

— Jim Morrison

46. “I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.”

— Jim Morrison

47. “Music inflames temperament.”

— Jim Morrison

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

— Jim Morrison

49. “We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves.”

— Jim Morrison

50. “We could plan a murder, or start a religion...”

— Jim Morrison