A Quote Of Quotes - Jim Morrison

Many times in my life, I've identified. This is one of them.

Mr Mojo Risin

(Jim Morrison)

“That’s what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing…You get to love your pretence. It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act- and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks…The love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession…

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are…You trade in your reality for a role…You trade in your sense for an act…You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask…

There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first…

People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feeling most of all…

People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain 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. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters…Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality…You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.

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.

Where’s your will to be weird?

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

Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

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

Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

I think it’s a lie- people claim they want to be free…everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that’s bullshit! People are terrified to be set free- they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It’s their security…How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don’t really want to be free?

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth…But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

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 and are you alive?

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

I think there’s a whole region of images and feelings inside us that rarely are given outlet in daily life…And when they do come out, they can take perverse forms. It’s the dark side…Everyone when he sees it, recognizes the same thing in himself…It’s a recognition of forces that rarely see the light of day. The more civilized we get on the surface, the more the other forces make their plea.

No more money, no more fancy dress, This other kingdom seems by far the best.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.


You're lost little girl."