Quotes by Jim Morrison

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

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

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

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

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.

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

Music inflames temperament.

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.

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

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

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

Where's your will to be weird?