Jim Morrison Quotes

I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tup and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank into sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies.

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying, and (b) not have died.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

But I did die once. (I don't recommend it.)

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.

I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

Got to say, dying would really wreck my best day. Been there, done that, and now that I think about it, Artemis forgot to give me the t-shirt.

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all my life, and seen it's most faithful worshippers crumble in the end, screaming just to live, as if all the dark veils and the lillies and the smell of candles, and grandiose promises of the grave meant nothing. I knew that. But I always wished I was dead. It was a way to go on living

You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nicholson. 'Well, if Sven dreamed tonight that his dog died, he'd have a very, very bad night's sleep, because he's very fond of that dog. But when he woke up in the morning, everything would be all right. He'd know it was only a dream.' Nicholson nodded. 'What's the point exactly?' The point is if his dog really died, it would be exactly the same thing. Only he wouldn't know it. I mean he wouldn't wake up till he died himself.

When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

We are all going to die, sometimes even in the middle of a lease.

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?