Henry Rollins Quotes - Page 4

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• They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

  Henry Rollins

  Strong, Moon, Men

  "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, August 10, 1998.

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• Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto 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. It confuses you because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t come back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Feelings, Trying

  Henry Rollins (1997). “The First Five: Collected Work, 1983-1987”, 2 13 61

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• When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person To have it all come out right, to surprise yourself at how together you could be. When was the last time you ever met someone who made you want to give it all to them I mean give yourself to them. Where you couldn't express yourself enough - like you wanted to cut off one of your arms to be understood. That's it - you would cut your head off to have someone understand you. You know how pointless that one is. You know how many times you've smashed yourself to bits on the rocks.

  Henry Rollins

  Mean, Cutting, Rocks

  Henry Rollins (1992). “Black Coffee Blues”

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• After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have an understanding and insight of the human condition that is informed and motivated by a desire to immerse yourself in the human world and bring these stories to bear.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Understanding, Desire

  Source: paulsemel.com

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• 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. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Sadness, Thinking

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

  Henry Rollins

  Book, People, Records

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.313, Villard

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• I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

  Henry Rollins

  Want, Natural, Disaster

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• I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something.

  Henry Rollins

  Opportunity, Opportunities To Learn

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• Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.

  Henry Rollins

  Loneliness, Body, Scream

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• I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become
  strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

  Henry Rollins

  Dream, Tired, Sleep

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• Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental.

  Henry Rollins

  Zuckerberg, Stuff, Kind

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• My feelings for you shame me into silence.

  Henry Rollins

  Silence, Feelings, Shame

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• Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

  Henry Rollins

  Would Be, Modern, Modern Music

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• Humans are pretty amazing at living pretty much anywhere and so that makes me optimistic that perhaps humanity will be able to survive itself, because the reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century.

  Henry Rollins

  Optimistic, Reality, Water

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

  Henry Rollins

  Men, People, He Man

  Source: paulsemel.com

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• I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.

  Henry Rollins

  Intelligent, Thinking, Talking

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• If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

  Henry Rollins

  Revolution, Albums, Rage

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• I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear.

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  Skills, Trying, Blame

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• The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies
  You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong
  The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you're gonna get it wrong
  And it's gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom.

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  Summer, Lying, Night

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• It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Way, Impossible

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• I don't try to be angry to prove something. I wouldn't try to intimidate you for any reason unless you were trying to intimidate me, and then I would show you that you can't do that to me.

  Henry Rollins

  Trying, Intimidating, Reason

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.

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  Ideas, America, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.

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  Crazy, Crazy Person, Persons

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving, Skins, Smooth Skin

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• I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Scar Tissue, Oneself

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.283, Villard

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