Quotes by Jim Morrison

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

"Where's your will to be weird?"

"Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence."

"I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown."

"Hatred is a very underestimated emotion."

"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."

"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."

"I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments."

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."

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

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

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

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

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

"Music inflames temperament."

"Film spectators are quiet vampires."

"Love cannot save you from your own fate."

"This is the strangest life I've ever known."

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