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Quotes About Introspection

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?
~ Henry Rollins
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.
~ Henry Rollins
Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride.
~ Henry Rollins
It is you who makes me see what I really am.
~ Henry Rollins
Damn, I was lonely that autumn. I wished for a girl I could hang out with. I never really did anything to meet girls, too shy, too fucked up. Autumn makes me think of women.
~ Henry Rollins
I will never let you know how much you hurt me No, I will never tell you The lasts few months have sent me into myself It's not easy to forget you Time is healing me I keep my feelings to myself, it helps I don't understand you or your kind I end up getting myself messed up I can't take any more beatings like this
~ Henry Rollins
I'm not close to people, I am close to myself. I spend a lot of time inside.
~ Henry Rollins
I hope I don't dream tonight. Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.
~ Henry Rollins
I live in my head. It's the only place I can go where everybody knows me.
~ Henry Rollins
When I am near people, I can't hear the wind. Nights are wasted when spent around others
~ Henry Rollins
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.
~ Henry Rollins
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.
~ Henry Rollins
I think to myself and at the same time, I know these thoughts can't be the ones I really want to think. That there must be something better to have on my mind than what fills it and refuses to stop occupying all the room.
~ Henry Rollins
I am a broken man Washed ashore in humanity's Low tide Dislocated I feel no kinship with humans I do my best To forget myself
~ Henry Rollins
I need to know what you think of me so I can form an opinion about myself.
~ Henry Rollins
look at the phone thinking about calling out there There's no one to call Just voices Other worlds Sometimes I feel so thrown down So used up and vacant That I have to let time pass me by
~ Henry Rollins
There are nights where I cannot sleep They happen all the time In these periods, I don't want to exist Wouldn't it be nice to be no one right now? When I'm lying there, I always think of two things Sex and suicide Wouldn't it be nice to be no one right now? Sometimes I lie there and hope that I'll die right then
~ Henry Rollins
He shuffled into middle-age silently and without protest.
~ Henry Rollins
Sometimes it's hard to convince yourself that you're not an idiot.
~ Henry Rollins
Yesterday wants to pull me in, pull me down and starve me.
~ Henry Rollins
So easy to not say what you think To not do what you want Hard to take rejection Easy to hurt someone else and not know it Easy to make it hard
~ Henry Rollins
Life is death in slow motion.
~ Henry Rollins
One is the perfect number. The more things I do alone the better. In Miller's Black Spring he talks about the joy of being able to enjoy one's own company. I think there's nothing better than being a loner. I think it's the best way to be.
~ Henry Rollins
Young adulthood afforded me a lot of time on my own. Sometimes on a night off from work, I would park my car in a supermarket lot and just sit there, listening to tapes on my battery powered, one speaker Norelco. That sounds lonely but it was really cool, actually. It was all I needed. I pretty much do the same thing now but with slightly better playback.
~ Henry Rollins