10 Jim Morrison Quotes on Identity

Jim Morrison quotes on identity

5. When you're strange Faces come out of the rain When you're strange No one remembers your name When you're strange.

25. Do you dare deny my potency my kindness or forgiveness?

46. 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.

56. I think I was just fed up with the image that had been created around me, which I sometimes consciously, most of the time unconsciously cooperated with. It just got too much for me to really stomach and so I put an end to it one glorious evening.

66. We're like actors, turned loose in this world to wander in search of a phantom, endlessly searching for a half-formed shadow of our lost reality. 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.

69. You are too young to be old...

70. It's The Doors, the name of the band is The Doors. (in response to a DJ announcing to the audience: 'Please welcome Jim Morrison and the Doors!')

76. I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

78. I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

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