Quotes from Henry Rollins

When I am near people, I can't hear the wind. Nights are wasted when spent around others

I think that I'm running from something I heard on the radio That everybody's working for the weekend When does the weekend start? What comes at the end of the week? The end? Picture a tired dog chasing its tail

We try to understand the pain of others but we can only understand it our way.

The speaker over my head crackled, "There has been a Bell-Atlantic pager misplaced. If anyone has found it, please make this known to a flight attendant." It's under my left foot and you're never seeing it again.

Her mouth is a soft explosion of roses A burst of raw animal definition For a few moments I was mortal

You are the reason I don't want to die all the time When I am with you life is worth living Time away from you is strange and full of pain When I look into your eyes I can see how life has savaged you It's ok if you fall I will be there to catch you Anyone that would want to hurt you Would have to kill me to do it I will never be able to pound words into lines To match the velocity of your presence

I'm twenty-three and I sound like I'm fifty-five.

I will do to you what you taught me. I will pass my fingers over my scars and read them like Braille and they will tell me what to do.

The guy who shot him had quite a temper. Homicide had always made sense to him. He would say that there wasn't a problem in the world that couldn't be solved by shooting someone in the face. You just had to find the right person. Hell, you didn't even need to do that. Sometimes just shooting the person next to him was enough.

I have felt the muscle pull away from the bone. For a time I was mislead into thinking that I avenge these acts of harm against me. I realized that by living and growing stronger on a diet of scar tissue, I had something better than revenge. I have the best of your bad situation. I am like the roach, the rock, the mountain. I will not die. I will not break. I will not move. Face it. You'll go to your grave knowing you never had what it took to stop me.

Getting rid of you is a good thing, that's why I don't write you back I'm vomiting every memory from my system

I know why Kurtz went up river. He was tired of all the weak fucks that populate the streets of every city in the world.

The place where most people aren't is where the real thing is.

Without a defined enemy, some people wouldn't know how to get through the day. When there's no enemy, they make one. An enemy does not occur naturally. Animals may have conflict but it is survival motivated. It is Homo sapiens who seek out others and hit them until they hit back. It is as old as the first line drawn in the sand. Isn't it easier to fight than think?

I will never be able to pound words into lines To match the velocity of your presence

Sometimes a friend isn't a friend. Sometimes a friend is a bad thing waiting to happen. You need to get some time to yourself. When you feel the need to bolt—bolt. Most of this shit you work out on your own anyway. You know what I'm talking about.

Don't let them scar you with their weakness. They will cripple you with their lives. They will make you want to die just to get away from them.

There's a great feeling when you're totally resolved. When you make the jump from being lonely to being only. When you're so totally alone and absolute.

She left an empty house in my heart. The lights don't work anymore, the heater's broken.

I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters telling me to go back to Russia or whatever.

I wish I wasn't alive as much as you are dead

I couldn't tell if I was being distant to someone, or rude or even hostile. I only know a good night and a bad night. I know that I remember the bad night longer than the good night.

I don't ask for much. I should ask for a lot, then maybe I might get some.

If you're finding life to be the one thing that's trying to kill you, I want you to stay alive to rise with the sun and fight back.