Top 500 Henry Rollins Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

252. “If I let you, you would make me destroy myself. In order to survive you, I must first survive myself. I can sink no further, and I cannot forgive you. There’s no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you. I’ve gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain. I will use my mistakes against you. There’s no other choice. Shameless now. Nameless now. Nothing now. No one now. But my soul must be iron, ’cause my fear is naked. I’m naked and fearless, and my fear is naked.”

— Henry Rollins

253. “When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.”

— Henry Rollins

254. “Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.”

— Henry Rollins

255. “I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking.”

— Henry Rollins

256. “I always took quite seriously the things that Chuck D. of Public Enemy had to say. He’s always been someone I’ve learned quite a bit from and someone I pay a great deal of attention to.”

— Henry Rollins

257. “Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.”

— Henry Rollins

258. “I don’t have a wife, I don’t have any kids, I don’t have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I’m kind of target oriented.”

— Henry Rollins

259. “Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.”

— Henry Rollins

260. “There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.”

— Henry Rollins

261. “Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.”

— Henry Rollins

262. “I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can’t answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.”

— Henry Rollins

263. “Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.”

— Henry Rollins

264. “I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.”

— Henry Rollins

265. “You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.”

— Henry Rollins

266. “Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.”

— Henry Rollins

267. “I’d defend myself. But I don’t go around shoving people around; that’s not me at all – that’s for a cop. I’m not into that type of behavior at all.”

— Henry Rollins

268. “There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.”

— Henry Rollins

269. “There’s a great feeling when you’re totally resolved. When you make the jump from being lonely to being only. When you’re so totally alone and absolute.”

— Henry Rollins

270. “Maybe I’m ego-tripping, but I don’t find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don’t think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.”

— Henry Rollins

271. “I don’t hate people – not remotely other than they make you crazy in traffic, but as I get older I kind of see more and more why people do what they do.”

— Henry Rollins

272. “You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.”

— Henry Rollins

273. “I’m usually busy – if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year – I’m usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it’s always a bad time.”

— Henry Rollins

274. “Football is at least as ‘gay’ as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film ‘300.’”

— Henry Rollins

275. “My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.”

— Henry Rollins

276. “How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.”

— Henry Rollins

277. “To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it’s the ‘way out there’ that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan.”

— Henry Rollins

278. “I’ve been on ‘Jay Leno,’ and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn’t want his job, because I’d have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there’s nothing there I’d want to know.”

— Henry Rollins

279. “I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that’s cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, “No way, man. He’s just banging strippers.” And I do that, but not all the time.”

— Henry Rollins

280. “I don’t have a crystal ball, but I’m willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there’s electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.”

— Henry Rollins

281. “I’m not a thrill seeker. I’m not looking to get kidnapped. I’m not looking to get a shot at. I’ve been shot at. I didn’t like it.”

— Henry Rollins

282. “There’s no such thing as an ex-junkie.”

— Henry Rollins

283. “Life will not break your heart. It’ll crush it.”

— Henry Rollins

284. “I’m not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I’m weird, but it’s not harmful weird.”

— Henry Rollins

285. “I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.”

— Henry Rollins

286. “When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it’s like the Saharan desert. You can’t even see across it.”

— Henry Rollins

287. “I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there’s just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.”

— Henry Rollins

288. “Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.”

— Henry Rollins

289. “I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.”

— Henry Rollins

290. “I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I’m basically a drip.”

— Henry Rollins

291. “Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don’t like him to like him. That’s why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.”

— Henry Rollins

292. “When people hold you in high esteem, it’s very delicate relationship. When they meet you they’re putting all their chips up. It’s make or break.”

— Henry Rollins

293. “I’ve never heard Daft Punk; I’ve never heard a track of theirs in my life. They’re the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?”

— Henry Rollins

294. “I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town.”

— Henry Rollins

295. “My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the ‘Pata Pata’ album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.”

— Henry Rollins

296. “I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics.”

— Henry Rollins

297. “Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really bad job, one of those horrible institutions, or one of those low squat buildings in Los Angeles. I write with that person in my mind.”

— Henry Rollins

298. “I’m most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I’m on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I’m supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.”

— Henry Rollins

299. “I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging out with many people really helps. I am not a people person and I spend a great deal of time on my own and in this environment, I get a lot done.”

— Henry Rollins

300. “Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.”

— Henry Rollins