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Jim Morrison
55 quotes
“You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run — Tried to hide — Break on through to the other side!”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Break on Through (To The Other Side)" from The Doors (1967)
“We chased our pleasures here, Dug our treasures there, But can you still recall The time we cried? Break on through to the other side!”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The End" from The Doors (1967)
“People are strange when you're a stranger Faces look ugly when you're alone Women seem wicked when you're unwanted Streets are uneven when you're down.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: People Are Strange" on the album Strange Days (1967)
“When you're strange Faces come out of the rain When you're strange No one remembers your name When you're strange.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: People Are Strange" on the album Strange Days (1967)
“Five to one, baby One in five No one here gets out alive, now You get yours, baby I'll get mine Gonna make it, baby If we try.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Five to One" on the album Waiting for the Sun (1968)
“The old get older And the young get stronger May take a week And it may take longer They got the guns But we got the numbers Gonna win, yeah We're takin' over Come on!”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Five to One" on the album Waiting for the Sun (1968)
“Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name? Hello, I love you, let me jump in your game.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , 1968
“Take an Indian home to lunch.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When asked how the USA should celebrate the Bicentennial, as quoted in Avant Garde magazine (March 1968)
“The future's uncertain and the end is always near”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , on the album Morrison Hotel (1970)
“At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea. Standing there on Freedom's shore. Waiting for the sun...”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Waiting for the Sun", on Morrison Hotel (1970)
“This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's a killer on the road His brain is squirming like a toad.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from the album L.A. Woman (1971).
“Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the loss of God.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)" on the albums L. A. Woman (1971) and An American Prayer (1978)
“I'll tell you this — No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)" on the albums L. A. Woman (1971) and An American Prayer (1978)
“Mute nostril agony.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't let me die in an automobile I wanna lie in an open field Want the snakes to suck my skin Want the worms to be my friends Want the birds to eat my eyes As here I lie The clouds fly by”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The End; Live in New York" (1970), "The End; Live at The Hollywood Bowl" (1968)
“I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then — whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me — ever.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Straight Whisky: A Living History of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll on the Sunset Strip (2003), by Erik Quisling, and Austin Lowry Williams p. 152
“I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in When You're Strange (2009) by Tom Dicillo
“Yoga powers. To make oneself invisible or small. To become gigantic and reach to the farthest things. To change the course of nature. To place oneself anywhere in space or time. To summon the dead. To exalt senses and perceive inaccessible images, of events on other worlds, in one's deepest inner mind, or in the minds of others.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(Windows work two ways, mirrors one way.) You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cinema has evolved in two paths. One is spectacle. Like the phantasmagoria, its goal is the creation of a total substitute sensory world. The other is peep show, which claims for its realm both the erotic and the untampered observance of real life, and imitates the keyhole or voyeur's window without need of color, noise, grandeur.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The subject says "I see first lots of things which dance — then everything becomes gradually connected".”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Few would defend a small view of Alchemy as "Mother of Chemistry", and confuse its true goal with those external metal arts. Alchemy is an erotic science, involved in buried aspects of reality, aimed at purifying and transforming all being and matter. Not to suggest that material operations are ever abandoned. The adept holds to both the mystical and physical work.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones, or the fertility of fire. Strange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Lords. Events take place beyond our knowledge or control. Our lives are lived for us. We can only try to enslave others. But gradually, special perceptions are being developed. The idea of the "Lords" is beginning to form in some minds. We should enlist them into bands of perceivers to tour the labyrinth during their mysterious nocturnal appearances. The Lords have secret entrances and they know disguises. But they give themselves away in minor ways. Too much glint of light in the eye. A wrong gesture. Too long and curious a glance.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“More or less, we're all afflicted with the psychology of the voyeur. Not in a strictly clinical or criminal sense, but in our whole physical and emotional stance before the world. Whenever we seek to break this spell of passivity, our actions are cruel and awkward and generally obscene, like an invalid who has forgotten to walk.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can't believe this is happening I can't believe all these people are sniffing each other & backing away teeth grinning hair raised, growling, here in the slaughtered wind”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you dare deny my potency my kindness or forgiveness?”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Camel caravans bear witness guns to Caesar. Hordes crawl and seep inside the walls. The streets flow stone. Life goes on absorbing war. Violence kills the temple of no sex.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cool pools from a tired land sink now in the peace of evening Clouds weaken and die. The sun, an orange skull, whispers quietly, becomes an island, & is gone. There they are watching us everything will be dark. The light changed. We were aware knee-deep in the fluttering air as the ships move on trains in their wake.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let's reinvent the gods, all the myths of the ages Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now listen to this... Ill tell you about texas radio and the big beat Soft driven, slow and mad Like some new language Reaching your head with the cold, sudden fury of a divine messenger Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god Wandering, wandering in hopeless night Out here in the perimeter there are no stars... Out here we is stoned... Immaculate.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine & dying We live, we die and death not ends it”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I touched her thigh and death smiled”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have assembled inside this ancient & insane theatre To propagate our lust for life & flee the swarming wisdom of the streets”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Resident mockery give us an hour for magic”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm sick of dour faces Staring at me from the T.V. Tower. I want roses in my garden bower; dig?”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will not go Prefer a feast of Friends To the Giant family”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The program for this evening is not new. You have seen This entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death; you might recall all of the rest — (did you have a good world when you died?) — enough to base a movie on?”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They're making a joke of our universe”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you know freedom exists in a school book Did you know madmen are running our prisons Within a jail Within a gaol Within a white free protestant maelstrom We're perched headlong on the edge of boredom We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Always a playground instructor, never a Killer”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Her cunt gripped him like a warm friendly hand.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source