Top 500 Henry Rollins Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “You can still function as a living ruin.”

— Henry Rollins

202. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

203. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

205. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

207. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

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210. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

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

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

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

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

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215. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

219. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

220. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

222. “I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something.”

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223. “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.”

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

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

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227. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

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

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229. “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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230. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

231. “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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232. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

233. “Texas is as odd as it is vast.”

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

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235. “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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236. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

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

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238. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

239. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

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

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241. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

242. “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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243. “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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244. “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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245. “A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.”

— Henry Rollins

246. “It’s so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can’t say the things you want to.”

— Henry Rollins

247. “Life is a hurdle and you’ll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.”

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248. “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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249. “I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out.”

— Henry Rollins

250. “With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.”

— Henry Rollins