Jim Morrison

“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.”

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

“There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr...”

“Tell them you came, and saw, and lookedinto my eyes and saw the shadowof the guard receding.Thoughts in time and out of season,the hitchinker stood by the side of the roadand levelled his thumb in thecalm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you?Why do planets wonder what itwould be like to be you?All your soft wild promises were words,birds, endlessly in flight.”

“Give me songsto singand emerald dreamsto dreamand I'll give you loveunfolding.”

“We came from over here,to over thereThen told we wondermindless to degreemost seldom furlsin slumber, burnsbegins a century.”

“[...] But this will not do. No, thiswill never do. There arecontinents and shores whichbeseech our understanding.Seldom have we been so slow.Seldom have we been so far.My only wish is to seeFar Arden again.”

“[...] My wild wordsslip into fusionand risk losingthe solid ground.So stranger, getwilder still.Probe the highlands.”

“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.”

“the west the best ...”

“O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.”

“The time you wait subtracts the joyThe heads the angel you destroy”

“the time to hesitate is throughno time to wallowin the mireTry now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre”

“Once you make peace with authority youbecome an authority”

“What have they done to the earth?What have they done to our fair sister?Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit herStuck her with knives in the side of the dawnAnd tied her with fences and dragged her down”

“the human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soonShip of Fools”

“All our lives we sweat and save,Building for a shallow grave.”

“Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.”

“I can make the earth stop inits tracks. I made theblue cars go away.I can make myself invisible or small.I can become gigantic & reach thefarthest things. I can changethe course of nature.I can place myself anywhere inspace or time.I can summon the dead.I can perceive events on other worlds,in my deepest inner mind,& in the minds of others.I canI am”

“No heavenly power will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”

“In the holy solipsism of the youngNow I can't walk thru a citystreet w/out eying eachsingle pedestrian. I feelthier vibe thru myskin, the hair on my neck--- it rises.”

“This is the strangest life I have ever known.”

“Cineama, heir of alchemy, The last erotic science”

“Death Makes Angels of us all.”

“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”

“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 experience.”

“Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.”

“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.”

“The DoorsThe EndThis is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my only friend The end of our elaborate plans The end of ev'rything that stands The end No safety or surprise The end I'll never look into your eyes again Can you picture what will be So limitless and free Desperately in need of some strangers hand In a desperate land Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain And all the children are insane All the children are insane Waiting for the summer rain There's danger on the edge of town Ride the king's highway Weird scenes inside the goldmine Ride the highway West baby Ride the snake Ride the snake To the lake To the lake The ancient lake baby The snake is long Seven miles Ride the snake He's old And his skin is cold The west is the best The west is the best Get here and we'll do the rest The blue bus is calling us The blue bus is calling us Driver, where you taking us? The killer awoke before dawn He put his boots on He took a face from the ancient gallery And he walked on down the hall He went into the room where his sister lived And then he paid a visit to his brother And then he walked on down the hall And he came to a door And he looked inside Father? Yes son I want to kill you Mother, I want to............. Come on, baby, take a chance with us Come on, baby, take a chance with us Come on, baby, take a chance with us And meet me at the back of the blue bus This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my only friend The end It hurts to set you free But you'll never follow me The end of laughter and soft lies The end of nights we tried to die This is the end”

“There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theatres to recall the sensation of rain.”

“When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder ... the most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.”

“People are strange when you're a stranger.”

“The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected.”

“I pressed her thigh and death smiled”

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

“No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.”

“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.”

“Well, I've been down so Goddamn long,that it looks like up to me.”

“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”

“Film spectators are quiet vampires.”

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

“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”“It’s like gambling, somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where you’re going to end up the next day. It could work out good, or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.”

“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”

“I am troubled, immeasurablyby your eyes. I am struck by the featherof your soft reply.The sound of glassspeaks quick, disdainand concealswhat your eyes fightto explain.”

“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”

“I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.”

“Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virginWe could plan a murderOr start a religion.”

“Svi tvrde da postoji jedan svijet... Ja tvrdim da postoje dva... Jedan je moj, a drugi dijelite kako hoćete...”

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. 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.”

“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”