302 Quotes by Jim MORRISON

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us

Let's swim to the moonLet's climb through the tideSurrender to the waiting worldsThat lap against our side.

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…

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

I rely on images of violence, which bring the shock of pain, to penetrate the barriers people erect and defend, not simple defenses; the phony facades people live behind. Blocking their perceptions from coming in, and blocking their feelings from coming put. There are two way I try to shatter those facades, or at least make a hole where something can get in, to let the trapped feelings out--one way is violence, pain. The other is eroticism.

Do you know we are being led toSlaughters by placid admirals& that fat slow generals are gettingObscene on young bloodDo you know we are ruled by t.v.

The guided tour "I am a guide to the labyrinth" city is inside of body made manifest meat organs & electrical power plantsThe place where, walking down death-row ("You look like you're"), maps - AMERICUS - a river-veinwe ride along. give form to the passing world Freeways are a drama, a newart form. Signs. Houses. Faces. Loud gabble of Blacks at a bus-stop.

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

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.