Quotes by Jim Morrison

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

“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.”

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

“The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.”

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

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

“Friends can help each other. 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. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.”

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

“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”

“Film spectators are quiet vampires.”

“Music inflames temperament.”

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

“Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.”

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

“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.”

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