Top 500 Henry Rollins Quotes (2025 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. “The ones who don’t do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.”

— Henry Rollins

103. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

105. “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

106. “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

107. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

109. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

111. “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

112. “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

113. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

116. “I’m a professional food eater.”

— 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. “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

119. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

120. “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

121. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

125. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

127. “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

128. “Anywhere you hang yourself is home.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

130. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

134. “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

135. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

138. “Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.”

— Henry Rollins

139. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

141. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

143. “Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, ‘Several Shades of Why’ and ‘Heavy Blanket,’ J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that ’80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over.”

— Henry Rollins

144. “Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.”

— Henry Rollins

145. “If there was a god, he wouldn’t let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That’s right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn’t it?”

— Henry Rollins

146. “Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.”

— Henry Rollins

147. “I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.”

— Henry Rollins

148. “I’m so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I’m the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I’m all I’ve got. I’m all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good.”

— Henry Rollins

149. “I can’t imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.”

— Henry Rollins

150. “To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.”

— Henry Rollins