1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don’t say you’re worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America’s concern, America’s operational presence there would be much different.

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

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.

I don’t mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

It’s hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It’s easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.

To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who’s trying to write so much.

If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.

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.

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind’s collective GDP.