Top 500 Henry Rollins Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn’t mean anything to me.”

— Henry Rollins

52. “Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.”

— Henry Rollins

53. “Friends come and go but 200lbs is always 200lbs.”

— Henry Rollins

54. “I continually remind myself to live by a code. It’s very important to me. I’ve got a bad temper.”

— Henry Rollins

55. “The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.”

— Henry Rollins

56. “Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone.”

— Henry Rollins

57. “I don’t believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn’t matter – it’s only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.”

— Henry Rollins

58. “Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won’t have to think I don’t want to think Because it only brings me pain I just keep running away from My problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away from myself.”

— Henry Rollins

59. “Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.”

— Henry Rollins

60. “Love heals scars love left.”

— Henry Rollins

61. “I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.”

— Henry Rollins

62. “The scars will take me far, they always do.”

— Henry Rollins

63. “It’ll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.”

— Henry Rollins

64. “The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.”

— Henry Rollins

65. “Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind.”

— Henry Rollins

66. “I want a soul mate 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.”

— Henry Rollins

67. “The best revenge is to always survive yourself.”

— Henry Rollins

68. “If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don’t show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.”

— Henry Rollins

69. “There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it’s impossible to turn back.”

— Henry Rollins

70. “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

72. “My feelings for you shame me into silence.”

— Henry Rollins

73. “To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who’s trying to write so much.”

— Henry Rollins

74. “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

75. “I’d like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I’ll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I’ll have no need for all that ‘art.’”

— Henry Rollins

76. “I feel pain everyday of my life. When you see me perform, it’s that pain you’re seeing coming out. I put all my emotions, all my feelings, and my body on the line. People hurt me, I hurt myself – mentally, physically.”

— Henry Rollins

77. “Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.”

— Henry Rollins

78. “All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.”

— Henry Rollins

79. “I listen to blues music a lot and that’s a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.”

— Henry Rollins

80. “I am basically working 7 days a week. When I am not eating, sleeping, or working out, I am working on one of projects which I am just damned determined to finish.”

— Henry Rollins

81. “I’m a liar. I’ll rip your mind up. I’ll burn your soul, I’ll turn you in to me.”

— Henry Rollins

82. “Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.”

— Henry Rollins

83. “Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say ‘no’ to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.”

— Henry Rollins

84. “In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.”

— Henry Rollins

85. “To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what’s really important.”

— Henry Rollins

86. “I’m a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You’re really messing with the wrong person on that one.”

— Henry Rollins

87. “If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.”

— Henry Rollins

88. “I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don’t go out and party. I don’t smoke, drink or do drugs and I’m not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.”

— Henry Rollins

89. “I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.”

— Henry Rollins

90. “Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.”

— Henry Rollins

91. “Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.”

— Henry Rollins

92. “I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.”

— Henry Rollins

93. “Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.”

— Henry Rollins

94. “I beg young people to travel...”

— Henry Rollins

95. “Always knowing you’re going to die And until then knowing you’ve got to live.”

— Henry Rollins

96. “I’ll be here tomorrow If I can make it through today.”

— Henry Rollins

97. “The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.”

— Henry Rollins

98. “War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.”

— Henry Rollins

99. “The world’s a better place since I chose music.”

— Henry Rollins

100. “In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.”

— Henry Rollins