Top 500 Henry Rollins Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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 myself better now and know what I have to do.”

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202. “Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.”

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203. “Don’t let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.”

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204. “I don’t think you’ll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we’re always in search of an upgrade.”

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205. “If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.”

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206. “Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.”

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207. “You can still function as a living ruin.”

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208. “I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book ‘Shock Doctrine.’ We make money on disaster.”

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209. “Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down.”

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210. “To our enemies all over the world who plan America’s demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.”

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211. “We’re at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren’t going to make it.”

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212. “I don’t know how much you follow current events. For some, there’s not enough time to keep up on what’s happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly.”

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213. “For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.”

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214. “Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth.”

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215. “I’m not a singer. If you’ve heard any of my records, that’s not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I’ve got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there’s no skill going on there. It’s more just intuitiveness.”

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216. “I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it’s up to me to pass or fail.”

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217. “Life is weird, great and dangerous.”

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218. “The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.”

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219. “I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.”

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220. “I have built my life to pursue the new. I don’t have family, don’t know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.”

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221. “Adolescence is a plague on the senses.”

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222. “Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.”

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223. “Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I’m free.”

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224. “In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.”

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225. “Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I’m in the mail room of life; working up.”

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226. “We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.”

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227. “Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.”

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228. “It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.”

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229. “The bible saw that can get a lot of people killed, so let’s try and steer people away from that. I am not an expert on the bible. I am just saying.”

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230. “I’m terrified of motorcycles. I’ve been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.”

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231. “So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I’m on the set, but I don’t take myself seriously as an actor.”

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232. “As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious.”

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233. “We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.”

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234. “If you’re finding life to be the one thing that’s trying to kill you, I want you to stay alive to rise with the sun and fight back.”

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235. “I’d love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I’m an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day.”

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236. “I try to be well informed. I don’t know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.”

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237. “Texas is as odd as it is vast.”

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238. “August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.”

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239. “Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don’t lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day.”

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240. “I like it better that people aren’t throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the ’80s, it was just aggravating all the time. I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.”

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241. “I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.”

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242. “You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There’ll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other.”

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243. “Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I’m not a fan of his music, I greatly applaud his humanitarian efforts.”

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244. “I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.”

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245. “It’s easy for me to play bad guys because it’s a very linear acting. Bad guys aren’t empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you’re not friendly and you don’t have to do much with your face.”

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246. “Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band’s guitar player, Tom Morello.”

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247. “Once you say something, it stays said. I apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by what I said, and I really meant it. I am absolutely not interested in hurting anyone, or being mean or insensitive.”

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248. “I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.”

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249. “Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?”

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250. “When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared – a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel – I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.”

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