Top 500 Henry Rollins Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.”

— Henry Rollins

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2. “Change is hard, but change is good.”

— Henry Rollins

3. “Strength is the product of struggle; you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t.”

— Henry Rollins

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4. “I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds”

— Henry Rollins

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5. “Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.”

— Henry Rollins

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6. “I don’t have talent. I have tenacity.”

— Henry Rollins

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7. “Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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9. “I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.”

— Henry Rollins

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10. “You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.”

— Henry Rollins

11. “What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.”

— Henry Rollins

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12. “In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”

— Henry Rollins

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13. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.”

— Henry Rollins

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14. “Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.”

— Henry Rollins

15. “You must never lower yourself to being a person you don’t like.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

17. “The more you own, the more it owns you.”

— Henry Rollins

18. “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”

— Henry Rollins

19. “You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.”

— Henry Rollins

20. “I’m constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.”

— Henry Rollins

21. “I like how I write better than how I speak.”

— Henry Rollins

22. “Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength.”

— Henry Rollins

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23. “I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.”

— Henry Rollins

24. “I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave – it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.”

— Henry Rollins

25. “We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.”

— Henry Rollins

26. “Don’t push me I’ve got a corner at my back I’ve nowhere to go except over you.”

— Henry Rollins

27. “Respect is not a one way street.”

— Henry Rollins

28. “My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.”

— Henry Rollins

29. “Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.”

— Henry Rollins

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30. “No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I’ve got no time to lose.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

32. “Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.”

— Henry Rollins

33. “We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don’t. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.”

— Henry Rollins

34. “When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

36. “If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.”

— Henry Rollins

37. “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

38. “Do it or don’t. It’s amazing how many things in life are that easy.”

— Henry Rollins

39. “I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one’s own and helping to raise that of others.”

— Henry Rollins

40. “I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.”

— Henry Rollins

41. “Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.”

— Henry Rollins

42. “The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.”

— Henry Rollins

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43. “The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found.”

— Henry Rollins

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44. “I am primarily a loner. I don’t go to clubs. I don’t hang out with people. I don’t know many people. It’s just the way it ended up. It’s not a sob story; it’s fine for me.”

— Henry Rollins

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45. “When the Iron doesn’t want to come off the mat, it’s the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn’t teach you anything.”

— Henry Rollins

46. “Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.”

— Henry Rollins

47. “Life is death in slow motion.”

— Henry Rollins

48. “Live music is the cure for what ails ya.”

— Henry Rollins

49. “The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he’s a criminal instead of a scholar. It’s business.”

— Henry Rollins

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50. “Without an education, you won’t have a future.”

— Henry Rollins