1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn’t worth the time and effort.

Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can’t work anymore.

I don’t try to be angry to prove something. I wouldn’t try to intimidate you for any reason unless you were trying to intimidate me, and then I would show you that you can’t do that to me.

Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It’s not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.

Capitalism does what it does and money doesn’t belong to anybody. It just stays in someone’s wallet for a while, then it goes somewhere else. It always goes somewhere and it is always about to go somewhere.

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

For myself, I can’t understand a life without a job. I don’t know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

Always knowing you’re going to die And until then knowing you’ve got to live.

With a book, there’s no volume to turn up. You’re very naked with a book.