Henry Rollins, known initially as Henry Garfield, rose to fame in the early '80s with his performance in some punk bands.
His quotes are generally inspired by his childhood and teenage experiences, music career, and socio-political and socio-economic realities. However, the best quotes by this multi-talented entertainer are those inspired by his personal life.
Henry Rollins' quotes reflect his life as a musician, actor, comedian, writer, and activist. His quotes are multi-faceted, touching on love, nature, health, adventure, and physical activities.
Henry Rollins Love Quotes
These Henry Rollins love quotes provide a factual assessment of love life.
"Love heals scars love left."
"Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel."
"Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul."
"They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then."
"I don't care what you look like, just turn me on."
"Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time."
"Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind."
"I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows."
"I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there."
"My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection."
"It hurts to let go."
"I need you like life needs life. I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see."
"I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow."
Henry Rollins Motivational Quotes
Many of Henry Rollins' quotes are revered for their motivational values.
"My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud."
"If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, if I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls."
"When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got"
"If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done."
"A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others."
"I'm all I've got. I'm all I can take."
"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."
"I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one."
"To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important."
"I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out – with books, with the band, on my own on stage, but it's always kind of a wail."
"When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive."
"You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."
"I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible."
"We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't."
"Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead."
"You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like."
"Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else."
"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."
“I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done.”
"Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine."
"And so there are lessons that you can't get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight."
"When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts."
"When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility, and your sense of community."
"In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed."
"I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success."
"I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that."
"In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move."
"I am ready for whatever's coming."
"I'm the only one I would put through this."
"Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock."
Best Henry Rollins Quotes
These quotes by Henry Rollins are multi-faceted and impactful, thus popularly adopted.
"I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention."
"I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh."
"If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree."
"I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does." - 'The Portable Henry Rollins'
"Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else." - 'Smile, You're Traveling: Black Coffee Blues Part 3'
"The moon treats everyone the same. The moon never tries to get in on the guest list or use your name to impress others."
"It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements."
"You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom."
"I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs."
"When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship."
"Respect is not a one way street."
"I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought." - 'The Portable Henry Rollins'
"The smart ones keep to themselves for good reason."
"The moon needs not fame or money to be powerful. The moon never asks you to go to war to defend it. Be like the moon."
"It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."
"The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards, or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs."
"Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things."
"Pizza makes me think that anything is possible."
“Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.”
"I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself."
"Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor."
"I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you."
"One person's disaster is another person's talking point."
"I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me… and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop."
"The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well."
"I get tired of talking when I want to be silent." - 'The Portable Henry Rollins'
"Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure."
"Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred."
"Someday, I would like to go home. The exact location of this place, I don't know, but someday I would like to go."
"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better"
"Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward."
"Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good."
"If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd-pleaser, and the 14th the ultimate hero scene."
"If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do."
"Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock."
"Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown."
"When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it."
"Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away."
"With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad."
"Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy."
"I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go."
Henry Rollins Quotes On Physical Fitness
These quotes from Henry Rollins will inspire you to keep healthy and motivated.
"Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp."
"I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow."
"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."
"I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb. Henry Rollins."
"Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds."
"Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside."
