Quote

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

Jim Morrison

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jim Morrison
Age: 27 †
Born: 1943
Born: December 8
Died: 1971
Died: July 3
Actor
Composer
Director
Lyricist
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Melbourne
Florida
James Douglas Jim Morrison
Mr. Mojo Risin'
The Lizard King
James Douglas Morrison
Else
Private
Personal
Violence
Anyone
Less
Inflict
Pain
Terrifying
Fear
Solitary
Feelings
Scary

More quotes by Jim Morrison

Image
Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music.
Jim Morrison
Image
Music inflames temperament.
Jim Morrison
Image
Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
Jim Morrison
Image
Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.
Jim Morrison
Image
I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
Jim Morrison
Image
I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
Jim Morrison
Image
There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.
Jim Morrison
Image
Getting drunk . . . you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like . . . I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
Jim Morrison
Image
The time you wait subtracts the joy The heads the angel you destroy
Jim Morrison
Image
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
Jim Morrison
Image
The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.
Jim Morrison
Image
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
Jim Morrison
Image
Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?
Jim Morrison
Image
The spectator is a dying animal.
Jim Morrison
Image
Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.
Jim Morrison
Image
I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.
Jim Morrison
Image
Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v.
Jim Morrison
Image
Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.
Jim Morrison
Image
You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
Jim Morrison
Image
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Jim Morrison