Jim Morrison Quotes

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

I think about death all the time. I think that's a good thing because we're all going to die, and the only thing we can control is how we are and what we're doing in the meantime.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Nobody asked you about being born, nobody is going to ask you when the time comes for you to be taken away. Then why be worried? Birth happened to you; death will happen to you; who are you to come in between?

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.

[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.

In fact living is dying.

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

Dying is a part of living, but only a very small part.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who show me baby pictures.

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.