Henry Rollins Quotes

I am well protected
Too locked up
Inside myself
To get free

I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.

My feelings for you shame me into silence.

I'll be here tomorrow
If I can make it through today.

Sometimes it's not catastrophic. Sometimes you only come to the bottom of your coffee cup. Sometimes you have a good day. No one wants to know. No one wants to tell you about theirs either. You might somehow take it. Turn it against them. See the flaw. You always tell them the whole thing sucks. It keeps you alive. They figure if you're out there having a rotten time, everything's fine and you're doing your part. No one will ever try to take your bad times away from you but they'll come swarming for your happiness.

My dick is a macho shithead but the rest of me is a sensitive, caring and gentle guy.

Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?

You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

You can still function as a living ruin.

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

I don’t want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don’t love you, ones who are dead or hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up and I can’t get things done.

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.

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

Basically, men are afraid of women and can’t handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.