Quotes by Henry Rollins

“You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I dont need a god. I have you and your beautiful mouth, your hands holding onto me, the nails leaving unfelt woun...”

“Love heals scars love left”

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”

“Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.”

“I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become.”

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myse...”

“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.”

“When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?”

“Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.”

“I used to love youI still doSo SelfishI love the old youThe you that didnt shoot drugs...The you that didnt get beat on by menYou laugh in my face and call me a foolBut its trueI still love youSome...”

“She liked me because she said that we both hated everything and knew that friendship was an act of desperation. She said that for a man I was alright. She said that people were half-way and if it w...”

“A rose trapped inside a fist.”

“There is nothing like being told to go fuck yourself by the same person who was, only days before, praying on your behalf.”

“I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. F...”

“Do you ever get the feeling that when you show someone your affection for them, you are assaulting them? Like you should probably leave them alone? Your affection, no matter how sincere, does not n...”

“Yeah, thats my experience. Humbling to the point where you have major regrets about some of the stupid things you said, some of the things you thought were right. You keep going to these countries,...”

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

“My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now I live without inspiration. I go day to day and do the work because it's all I kno...”

“Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness. When I see you, the room swallows me. I find myself at the bottom of the pool.”