Henry Rollins Quotes

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

Inspirational, Yourself, Parents

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, Work, Hate

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

Sad, Someone, Knew

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

Life, Beauty, Loneliness

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

Alone, Lonely, Boring

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

Strength, Realize, Move

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

Destiny, Hatred, Matter

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.
Henry Rollins

Hate, Care, Focus

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

Life, Heart, Break

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
Henry Rollins

Time, Great, Men

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

Great, Insanity, Bit

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.
Henry Rollins

Pain, Feeling, Personal

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
Henry Rollins

Life, Great, Mistakes

Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.
Henry Rollins

Person, Find, Maybe

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
Henry Rollins

Art, Yourself, Feelings

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
Henry Rollins

Change, Blood, Necessary

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

Truth, Good, Real

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
Henry Rollins

Optimism, Heavy, Loud

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
Henry Rollins

Change, Nice, Others

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
Henry Rollins

Yourself, Real, Doubt

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

Hope, Person, Before

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
Henry Rollins

Good, Give, Same

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.
Henry Rollins

Mind, Keep, Body

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.
Henry Rollins

Truth, Long, Tell

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
Henry Rollins

Love, Money, Yourself

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: February 13, 1961

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