1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

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.

Well, there’s Katrina, but you can go through lots of Kurdistan and it looks like Katrina was just there but there’s people living in it.

Love heals scars love left.

There’s nothing funny about, ‘Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.’ Who cares?

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.

In fact, every place I’ve been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta, parts of Central and South America, I’ve seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot of sad poverty and just obliteration.

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.

I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you become as interested in the writer as much as the writing itself. It’s all these things that make reading so appealing to me.

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