Top 500 Henry Rollins Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “If I hear, ‘Be afraid of Tehran,’ I’m like, ‘I’d better go to Tehran.’”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

103. “We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It’s why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot.”

— Henry Rollins

104. “The ones who don’t do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.”

— Henry Rollins

105. “It’s not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can’t imagine that they will ever be gone.”

— Henry Rollins

106. “Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.”

— Henry Rollins

107. “When she comes She pulls you close She breathes in short bursts Her eyes close Her head tilts back Her mouth opens slightly Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt She is perfect And you feel like you are everything.”

— Henry Rollins

108. “I’ve always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you’ve got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn’t supposed to be easy.”

— Henry Rollins

109. “Everyone who knows me knows that I’m a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.”

— Henry Rollins

110. “We are occupants. No one has any lasting purchase on life or on the planet.”

— Henry Rollins

111. “For me, speaking to anyone – on a stage, in an elevator – I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.”

— Henry Rollins

112. “The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.”

— Henry Rollins

113. “When I die, the world dies with me. I’d really like to leave it better than how I found it and I’m doing what I can to effect that.”

— Henry Rollins

114. “Girls aren’t beautiful, they’re pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.”

— Henry Rollins

115. “My fear is naked, I’m naked and fearless, and my fear is naked!”

— Henry Rollins

116. “I’m 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I’d also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people – I don’t want to judge it or anything – but it’s not for me. It would destroy my creativity.”

— Henry Rollins

117. “You don’t make me feel like you used to. That’s why I’m leaving That’s why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.”

— Henry Rollins

118. “It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.”

— Henry Rollins

119. “I’m a professional food eater.”

— Henry Rollins

120. “Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.”

— Henry Rollins

121. “There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.”

— Henry Rollins

122. “August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.”

— Henry Rollins

123. “Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.”

— Henry Rollins

124. “I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.”

— Henry Rollins

125. “I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.”

— Henry Rollins

126. “My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.”

— Henry Rollins

127. “I didn’t want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn’t want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.”

— Henry Rollins

128. “I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.”

— Henry Rollins

129. “I have always identified with Joan Didion’s depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading ‘Play It As It Lays,’ ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’ and ‘The White Album.’”

— Henry Rollins

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130. “The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.”

— Henry Rollins

131. “Anywhere you hang yourself is home.”

— Henry Rollins

132. “We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.”

— Henry Rollins

133. “It’s hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.”

— Henry Rollins

134. “I like people. Rightwingers don’t. They like business, they don’t care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.”

— Henry Rollins

135. “I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.”

— Henry Rollins

136. “I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn’t inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.”

— Henry Rollins

137. “South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.”

— Henry Rollins

138. “You can’t get your head around something if you’re yelling.”

— Henry Rollins

139. “Capitalism does what it does and money doesn’t belong to anybody. It just stays in someone’s wallet for a while, then it goes somewhere else. It always goes somewhere and it is always about to go somewhere.”

— Henry Rollins

140. “So I’m more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It’s weird being here. It feels like I’m standing next to my real life.”

— Henry Rollins

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141. “I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.”

— Henry Rollins

142. “You don’t have to twist my arm to work.”

— Henry Rollins

143. “Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.”

— Henry Rollins

144. “I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free.”

— Henry Rollins

145. “There’s tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.”

— Henry Rollins

146. “Sleep is for squares.”

— Henry Rollins

147. “If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.”

— Henry Rollins

148. “I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.”

— Henry Rollins

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149. “Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.”

— Henry Rollins

150. “An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.”

— Henry Rollins