Henry Rollins: Trending quotes (page 4)

“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”

“Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride.”

“Always knowing you're going to die
And until then knowing you've got to live.”

“Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.”

“You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.”

“It hurts to let go. 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.”

“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”

“Life forgets me but will not let me forget
Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.”

“I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.”

“The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.”

“He looked at her
Something
Turned cancerous
He was in love.”

“It is you who makes me see what I really am.”

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

“You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.”

“Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.”

“I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.”

“You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.”

“Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain a world that could hold me as the bolts shake loose and fly from my frame.”

“No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.”