1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

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.

I’m pessimistic. I don’t think that justice always gets the right person.

Don’t go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.

I’m always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there’s been great bands. All over the world, all the time. So when someone goes, “Music sucks now!” I’ll go, “I don’t think so. Not over at my house.”

I’d like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, ’cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

You don’t have to twist my arm to work.

I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better.

Where there is young people and vitality, you’re going to find punk rock.

The easy solution isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.