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 MORRISONWe 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 MORRISONA friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
JIM MORRISONPain 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 MORRISONAll 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 MORRISONThat’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
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 MORRISONViolence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.
JIM MORRISONYou have a lot of small choices. It’s like . . . I guess it’s the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
JIM MORRISONThe only solution is to confront them – confront yourself – with the greatest fear imaginable.
JIM MORRISONEach generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
JIM MORRISONA hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them.
JIM MORRISONYou’ve seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?
JIM MORRISONNo one here gets out alive.
JIM MORRISONSome people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth.
JIM MORRISONExpose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
JIM MORRISONMan, I’m sick of doubt.
JIM MORRISON