1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong, and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't come back. You're left so alone that you can't explain.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.