1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

"A rose trapped inside a fist."

"She is the gin. Cold, intoxicating. Gives you a rush, makes you warm inside, makes you lose your head. Take too much, it makes you sick and shuts you down. He is the coffee, hot, steaming, filtered. You have to add stuff to it to make it taste good. Grinds your stomach, makes you jittery, wired, and tense. Bad trip, keeps you up, burns you out. Coffee and gin don’t mix, never do, everybody keeps trying and trying to make it taste good."

"For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder"

"I don't have talent, I have tenacity."

"I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine."

"They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. 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."

"I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking"

"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."

"She lit my soul and inhaled deeplyFlicking my ashes occasionally."

"I think to myself: I don't want to survive this oneI want to burn up in the wreckage"