Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts

— Jim Morrison

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 - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.

— Jim Morrison

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

— Jim Morrison

The future is uncertain, but the end is always near.

— Jim Morrison

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

— Jim Morrison

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. Furthermore, you give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

— 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

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

— Jim Morrison

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

— Jim Morrison

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

— Jim Morrison