88 result(s) for Henry Rollins Quotes.
"Strength is the outcome of need, security is the result of trust."
"I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself."
"Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands."
"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."
"Scar tissue is just another kind of memory."
"I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs them."
"What goes up must come down, but just because it goes down doesn't mean it can't come back up."
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"I will never understand people who feel the need to be tough and mean to others."
"I think about what I want to accomplish, what I was put here to do."
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
"If you have a choice between humble and cocky, go with humble."
"I want to close all prisons. They are criminal universities."
"Muscles are in my body, and you know what muscles do? They hold me together."
"I don't have talent. I have tenacity."
"Half of life is fucking up, the other half is fixing it."
"If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you."
"Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated."
"I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine."
"Our war is cultural. There is a war of the imagination, and we are losing."
"There is no room in my life for cowards."
"Strength cannot be easily given. It must be taken by the weak from the strong."
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"I will accept the rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
"Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it."
"Seeing is easy. Doing is hard."
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
"Education is never neutral."
"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."
"I don't want to play the pity game. It doesn't inspire me at all. It's just a lot of negative energy."
"Strength is the outcome of need, security is the outcome of want."
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?"
"The only way to truly be satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."
"Dreams are for those who can afford to drift off for a few moments. The rest of us settle for real life."
"Society does not want individuals that are alert, keen, fierce and confident. It wants creeps that are conditioned to subdue their inborn valor."
"The iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The iron will always kick you the real deal. The iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver."
"Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred."
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"Something's strange: I'm starting to like people. Well, 'like' is not well put. 'Not despise' might be better."
"I want to change people's lives with music; give them something they never forget."
"I don't want to look at anyone. That's why I work alone. I can't stand to look at people."
"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward."
"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
"I don't mind comfortable shoes."
"I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else."
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."
"If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always."
"Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred."
"I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own."
"Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy."
"I'm an American. I have the right to write. I have the right to speak."
"There are days that define your story beyond your life. Like the day they arrived."
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
"I'm against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
"No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go."
"I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it."
"In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country."
"Muscle is created by lifting things that are designed to weigh us down."
"I don't have talent, I have tenacity. I have discipline. I have focus. I know, without any delusion, where I come from & where I can go back to."
"If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do."
"The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink."
"One day you're a hero – the next day you're a zero."
"Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't."
"I'm out in the world, and I see things I wanna fix. What do you do? You fix them."
"I’m not interested in a wall unless there’s something worth looking at on the other side. Don’t build a wall, build a door."
"You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."
"It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're out of your mind."
"I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown, eat interesting food, dig some interesting people, have an adventure, be careful."
"The driving force behind the infinite turning gears of the music industry is money,—always and only."
"Nothing brings people together more, than mutual hatred."
"The idea of being a writer, to me, was just the best thing"
"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."
"Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it."
"No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is lifetime. Go."
"To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important."
"Everything I do, I do in a way that will make me come out smelling like a rose."
"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."
"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."
"I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else on the planet does."
"In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move."
"When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn't matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions."
"I don't have talent, I have tenacity. I have discipline. I have focus. I know, without any illusion, where I come from."
"Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp."
"It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly."
"I am an optimist. Because I don't see the point in being anything else."
"Though I am not sure whether or not I am a popular figure, I am quite aware of the fact that I am an actor."
"I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scars."
"There's something about doing television. It's a great experience. I was determined to get in the movies, so I did every movie I could."
"Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good."
"In my life, I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame."
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