Quotes from Henry Rollins

I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free

I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don't want to.

My feelings for you shame me into silence.

I'll be here tomorrow If I can make it through today.

My dick is a macho shithead but the rest of me is a sensitive, caring and gentle guy.

Is it a shame that I can't accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else's world?

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.

You can still function as a living ruin.

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.

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

I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.

I don't want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don't love you, ones who are dead or hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up and I can't get things done.

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.

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

I want someone who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.

You can get away with a lot of shit if it looks like it`s all you know how to do.

One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow I flew. I stopped acting. I got tired of playing with you. Random violence and destruction Because my reason for living, my out, My excuse. What is your excuse? Destruction. Without hate, without fear, Without judgement. I am no better Than you. No-one knows this better Than I do. I just got tired of playing Parlor Games.

Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.

I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking

The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.