Top 140 Jim Morrison Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.”

— Jim Morrison

102. “There’s nothing wrong with being a large mammal.”

— Jim Morrison

103. “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.”

— Jim Morrison

104. “The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.”

— Jim Morrison

105. “Film spectators are quiet vampires.”

— Jim Morrison

106. “Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss.”

— Jim Morrison

107. “The best songs just come unasked for. You don’t have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.”

— Jim Morrison

108. “Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.”

— Jim Morrison

109. “A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.”

— Jim Morrison

110. “Nobody understands you better than yourself, but if someone tries to do it is because he loves you.”

— Jim Morrison

111. “She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.”

— Jim Morrison

112. “Be always like the sea, than breaking up against cliffs it finds always the force to try again.”

— Jim Morrison

113. “How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?”

— Jim Morrison

114. “She needed Cholly’s sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.”

— Jim Morrison

115. “We are content in the ‘given’ in sensation’s quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.”

— Jim Morrison

116. “I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you’re doing something.”

— Jim Morrison

117. “I don’t think there should even be a president, man. I think we should have total democracy.”

— Jim Morrison

118. “I’ll always be a word man, better than a bird man.”

— Jim Morrison

119. “We need great golden copulations.”

— Jim Morrison

120. “All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.”

— Jim Morrison

121. “All our songs are about love, travel and death.”

— Jim Morrison

122. “Dreams are at once fruit and outcry against an atrophy of the senses...”

— Jim Morrison

123. “Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.”

— Jim Morrison

124. “Films are collections of dead pictures which are given artificial insemination.”

— Jim Morrison

125. “I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.”

— Jim Morrison

126. “I like to let each thing happen – direct it a little consciously, maybe – but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don’t plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we’ll play.”

— Jim Morrison

127. “Or society places a supreme value on control – hiding what you feel. Our culture mocks “primitive cultures” and prides itself on supression of natural instincts and impulses.”

— Jim Morrison

128. “I’m interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.”

— Jim Morrison

129. “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.”

— Jim Morrison

130. “I rely on images of violence, which bring the shock of pain, to penetrate the barriers people erect and defend, not simple defenses; the phony facades people live behind. Blocking their perceptions from coming in, and blocking their feelings from coming put. There are two way I try to shatter those facades, or at least make a hole where something can get in, to let the trapped feelings out – one way is violence, pain. The other is eroticism.”

— Jim Morrison

131. “Do you think you’ll be the guy to make the queen of the angels sigh?”

— Jim Morrison

132. “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.”

— Jim Morrison

133. “Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.”

— Jim Morrison

134. “I’“ll never look into your eyes again.”

— Jim Morrison

135. “The mask that you wore. My fingers would explore. Costume of control. Excitement soon unfolds.”

— Jim Morrison

136. “Man, I’m sick of doubt.”

— Jim Morrison

137. “Urge to come to terms with the “Outside,” by absorbing, interiorizing it. I won’t come out, you must come in to me. Into my womb-garden where I peer out. Where I can construct a universe within the skull, to rival the real.”

— Jim Morrison

138. “My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I’d like to write something of great importance. That’s my ambition-to write something worthwhile.”

— Jim Morrison

139. “Look where we worship.”

— Jim Morrison

140. “The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.”

— Jim Morrison

141. “The writer is just answering a series of unuttered questions.”

— Jim Morrison