Marriage Quote by Jim Morrison

Restlessness is the engine in Jim Morrison's line, and he frames it less as youthful whim than as a structural need. "New symbols, new people, new names" is a piling-on of nouns that reads like a shopping list for identity: not just fresh ideas, but fresh faces and fresh language to carry them. The repetition does the work of a drumbeat, suggesting a generational churn that feels inevitable, almost biological.

Coming from Morrison, the remark doubles as both diagnosis and self-justification. In the late 1960s, when The Doors became lightning rods for a youth culture trying to outrun Cold War conformity, "symbols" weren't decorative; they were battlegrounds. Hair, clothes, slang, music, even public scandal functioned as shorthand for allegiance. Morrison knew the performance of difference could be as important as difference itself, and "new names" winks at the reinvention baked into celebrity and counterculture alike.

The word that sharpens the quote is "divorce". It's not "learn from" or "depart from" but a legal, emotional severing. That metaphor hints at the subtext: separation is both liberation and loss. A divorce requires a story about why the old relationship was untenable, so each generation narrates its predecessors into obsolescence to make its own choices feel necessary. Morrison isn't romanticizing that break; he's noting the appetite for rupture, and how identity often arrives by negation - by saying, loudly, we are not them.