1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

The music kind of takes care of itself because we've done all that as preproduction in the practice room. So by the time it gets onstage, each song has about one hundred hours of way too much mothering gone into it. So when you see us play live, that is the product of ninety days of practice, over a year of writing, listening to demos on the weekends after practice.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.