Jim Morrison Quotes

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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
I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space 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 can I am

Jim Morrison
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.

Jim Morrison
I'll tell you this —
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

Jim Morrison
What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her,
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn,
And tied her with fences and dragged her down.

Jim Morrison
Lying on stained wretched sheets with the bleeding virgin,
we could plan a murder... or start a religion.

Jim Morrison
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
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
We have assembled inside this ancient
& insane theatre
To propagate our lust for life
& flee the swarming wisdom
of the streets

Jim Morrison
Desperately in need of some stranger's hand In a desperate land

Jim Morrison
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
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
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
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
Five to one, baby, one in five,
No one here gets out alive…
They got the guns but we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeah, we're taking over.

Jim Morrison
When you make your peace with authority, you become an authority.

Jim Morrison
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
Death makes angels of us all
and gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven's
claws

Jim Morrison
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
The Lords appease us with images. They give us books, concerts, galleries, shows, cinemas. Especially the cinemas. Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.

Jim Morrison
Indian, Indian what did you die for?
Indian says, nothing at all.

Jim Morrison
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
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
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
The world becomes an apparently infinite,
yet possibly finite, card game.
Image combinations,
permutations,
comprise the world game.

Jim Morrison
I'm sick of dour faces
Staring at me from the T. V.
Tower.
I want roses in
my garden bower; dig?

Jim Morrison
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
Do you dare
deny my
potency
my kindness
or forgiveness?

Jim Morrison
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection,
Send my credentials to the house of detention.

Jim Morrison
Most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

Jim Morrison