“I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.”

Source: Solipsist

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding …" by Henry Rollins?
Henry Rollins photo
Henry Rollins 103
American singer-songwriter 1961

Related quotes

Thomas Dekker photo
Graham Greene photo
Jeanette Winterson photo
David Lynch photo

“The sick reality about our over dependance on language is that trying to live without it is like a blind and deaf man with no arms or legs trying to navigate a dark narrow cave, and the cave is full of tarantulas.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

About the human dependency on language to communicate, as quoted in The Washington Post (18 June 2011)

Herman Melville photo
Mike Oldfield photo

“She takes the rain, turns it to sun,
And my soul she fills it.
Where once was a desert
Rivers now run, and my storms she stills it…”

Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist

Song lyrics, Earth Moving (1989)

William Shakespeare photo

“O, full of scorpions is my mind!”

Source: Macbeth

Milan Kundera photo
Christopher Walken photo
Fumiko Enchi photo

Related topics