Violence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.
JIM MORRISONViolence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.
JIM MORRISONLos Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also.
JIM MORRISONThere’s the know. And there’s the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that’s what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th’ dooooooooorrr…
JIM MORRISONThat’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is….Most people love you for who you pretend to be…
JIM MORRISONSometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.
JIM MORRISONThe 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 MORRISONMost people love you for who you pretend to be….To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing.
JIM MORRISONIt may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
JIM MORRISONThere are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.
JIM MORRISONIs everybody in?… Is everybody in?… Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin…
JIM MORRISONThat unknown was once very well known. It’s where our souls belong….
JIM MORRISONI 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.
JIM MORRISONYou have a lot of small choices. It’s like . . . I guess it’s the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
JIM MORRISONWe’re reaching for death on the end of a candle We’re trying for something that’s already found us
JIM MORRISONThere are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.
JIM MORRISONObviously that can only work at moments. It can’t be a lasting thing.
JIM MORRISON