Henry Rollins Quotes

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great me...

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spil...

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're put...

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too muc...

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of per...

For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishF...

It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the mor...

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.

To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a t...

It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go...

Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite Ameri...

I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most...

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probab...

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're...

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, w...

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would t...

I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensi...

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead o...

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but...

I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do.

I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Go...

Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many peo...

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to s...

I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, an...

Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would thi...

I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've...

In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the tru...

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singin...

Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting eac...

I don't have talent, I have tenacity.

I'll be here tomorrowIf I can make it through today.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, sai...

A rose trapped inside a fist.

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will...

I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought...

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

She lit my soul and inhaled deeplyFlicking my ashes occasionally.

I think to myself: I don't want to survive this oneI want to burn up in the wreckage

Love heals scars love left

It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the mor...

They left like you knew they would. They went away and you fell like a stone. All the way to the bot...

Do you ever get the feeling that when you show someone your affection for them, you are assaulting t...

I was at this guy's house. I met this girl who was hanging out there. She was real pretty, she had b...

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front ...

My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every ...

She liked me because she said that we both hated everything and knew that friendship was an act of d...

It's funny how people think that they have "a right to life". Now isn't that the biggest load you ev...

How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back an...

A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel,...

August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed he...

There is nothing like being told to go fuck yourself by the same person who was, only days before, p...

I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness a...

When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a we...

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious w...

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a g...

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I...

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop son...

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a pe...

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a t...

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people...

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people ...

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

I used to love youI still doSo SelfishI love the old youThe you that didnt shoot drugs...The you tha...

To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, a...

They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have ...

Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, fro...

While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per t...

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became...

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start...

At some point they show their true colorsAfter the break upAfter the trial After the contract is sig...

I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes p...

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees...

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, a...

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy w...

You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a g...

Yeah, that’s my experience. Humbling to the point where you have major regrets about some of the stu...

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your ...

There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hou...

America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.