Henry Rollins Life Quotations

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

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

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the way poverty is dealt with, the sheer number of dead bodies you see, it's all pretty overwhelming.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.

Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.

Life is weird, great and dangerous.

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.

Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.

Life is death in slow motion.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

I don't want to play old music. To me, it is fighting battles that are already over and calling yourself a warrior. For me, I see no courage or adventure in doing the old thing over again. If others want to, that's for them. For myself, I have to move on. Life is too short to live in the past. There is a lot to be done.