Quotes by Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

Life

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

— Henry Rollins

Wisdom

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

— Henry Rollins

Wisdom

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

— Henry Rollins

Friendship

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

— Henry Rollins

Success

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

— Henry Rollins

Wisdom

I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

— Henry Rollins

Hope

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

— Henry Rollins

Wisdom

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

— Henry Rollins

Love

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

— Henry Rollins

Wisdom

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

— Henry Rollins

Wisdom

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

— Henry Rollins

Truth

I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.

— Henry Rollins

Hope

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

— Henry Rollins

Wisdom

Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

— Henry Rollins

Life

My motto is, 'Never quit.'

— Henry Rollins

Wisdom

Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.

— Henry Rollins

Wisdom

Guns are part of the American identity.

— Henry Rollins

Wisdom

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

— Henry Rollins

Wisdom

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

— Henry Rollins

Courage

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

— Henry Rollins

Wisdom

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

— Henry Rollins

Success

I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.

— Henry Rollins

Life

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

— Henry Rollins

Love