Quotes from Jim Morrison

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

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.

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...

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

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

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.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?

I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can't drag people through.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything.

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD...I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.

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