Henry Rollins Quotes

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

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

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

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.

I work pretty much every day. I can’t really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.

I can say that American men and women in the Military are damn impressive.

Travelling as extensively as I do… the take away for me has made me very humble and very sympathetic to other people’s plight in the world and very desirous of being proactive in being part of a solution somehow and not part of a problem. It’s made me very patient and very grateful for where I live.

I will do my best to dodge tonight’s depression Hide in sleep Damage myself in dreams Wake up older, slightly more used.

We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It’s why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot.

If there was a god, he wouldn’t let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That’s right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn’t it?

People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters.