Top 140 Jim Morrison Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “They got the guns, but we got the numbers.”

— Jim Morrison

52. “Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.”

— Jim Morrison

53. “There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.”

— Jim Morrison

54. “When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.”

— Jim Morrison

55. “Each day is a drive through history.”

— Jim Morrison

56. “Love cannot save you from your own fate.”

— Jim Morrison

57. “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 experence.”

— Jim Morrison

58. “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.”

— Jim Morrison

59. “Most people love you for who you pretend to be.”

— Jim Morrison

60. “We’re reaching for death on the end of a candle We’re trying for something that’s already found us.”

— Jim Morrison

61. “I’ve always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.”

— Jim Morrison

62. “Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.”

— Jim Morrison

63. “I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”

— Jim Morrison

64. “I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can’t drag people through.”

— Jim Morrison

65. “You live you die and death not ends it.”

— Jim Morrison

66. “The spectator is a dying animal.”

— Jim Morrison

67. “Well, I’ve been down so Goddamn long, that it looks like up to me.”

— Jim Morrison

68. “I pressed her thigh and death smiled.”

— Jim Morrison

69. “I’ll never wake up in a good mood again. I’m tired of these stinky boots.”

— Jim Morrison

70. “There are images I need to complete my own reality.”

— Jim Morrison

71. “No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.”

— Jim Morrison

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

— Jim Morrison

73. “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

74. “That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.”

— Jim Morrison

75. “Death Makes Angels of us all.”

— Jim Morrison

76. “All games contain the idea of death.”

— Jim Morrison

77. “I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.”

— Jim Morrison

78. “Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?”

— Jim Morrison

79. “A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.”

— Jim Morrison

80. “If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”

— Jim Morrison

81. “I’m kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.”

— Jim Morrison

82. “Violence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.”

— Jim Morrison

83. “There may be a time when we’ll attend Weather Theatres to recall the sensation of rain.”

— Jim Morrison

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

— Jim Morrison

85. “Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day’s divinity! First thing you see!!”

— Jim Morrison

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

— Jim Morrison

87. “I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language – ‘I don’t know.’ It’s terribly embarrassing.”

— Jim Morrison

88. “Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.”

— Jim Morrison

89. “Cineama, heir of alchemy, The last erotic science.”

— Jim Morrison

90. “The time you wait subtracts the joy The heads the angel you destroy.”

— Jim Morrison

91. “Take an Indian home to lunch.”

— Jim Morrison

92. “Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.”

— Jim Morrison

93. “Blood is the rose of mysterious union.”

— Jim Morrison

94. “I like a man who wears his soul on his face.”

— Jim Morrison

95. “You’re all a bunch of fuckin’ slaves!”

— Jim Morrison

96. “When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.”

— Jim Morrison

97. “One shouldn’t take life so seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.”

— Jim Morrison

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

— Jim Morrison

99. “Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.”

— Jim Morrison

100. “Love is a dream. Dreams are good, but do not be surprised if you wake up in tears.”

— Jim Morrison