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101 " I look at pictures of you because I am afraid that you would notice me staring in real life. I looked at your picture today for countless minutes. It is closer than I’ll ever get to you for real. I felt like I was looking at a captured animal at a safe distance. If you knew I was doing this, you would feel sickened and frightened. That’s why you’ll never know. Years will go by and you’ll never know. I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain. "
― Henry Rollins , Solipsist
102 " Sometimes I wish I could be like Teflon. I always admired that stuff. Water beads up on it and slides off, nothing sticks. You gotta have a little of that to be able to deal with what's out there. But... Teflon takes a shot and shows the damage. It cannot heal itself. That is our strength: we can heal. We can make ourselves stronger. You can be a bright light in a sea of shit, doesn't matter how big the light is as long as it shines. Get a hold of some of that and don't blow your brains out no matter how good an idea it sounds like at the time. Like when you wake up around three in the morning panicking from an attack from some unseen horror and you want to get out so bad. "
― Henry Rollins
103 " I would like to be able to say that she broke my heart but I know better. I broke my own heart. I can't say that she did it and get behind that statement in any real way. I know too much. The only one I can blame for my loneliness is myself. Even if I did think that she did it to me I wouldn't feel any better. Tonight I was watching a movie and this actor in the film looked like her when she had a profile shot. She did not break my heart I did. I don't know why I would do something this painful to myself. I wish I would stop it's been months now and I'm still hurting myself nightly. I can avoid it for awhile and then it comes back. "
― Henry Rollins , Eye Scream
104 " You can find me in the frozen mood section. "
105 " I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to. "
106 " I am well protectedToo locked upInside myselfTo get free "
107 " I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to. "
108 " Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not. "
109 " My feelings for you shame me into silence. "
110 " 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. "
― Henry Rollins , Roomanitarian
111 " 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? "
112 " Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me. "
113 " My dick is a macho shithead but the rest of me is a sensitive, caring and gentle guy. "
114 " 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. "
115 " I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down. "
116 " People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. "
117 " You can still function as a living ruin. "
118 " 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. "
119 " I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me. "
120 " 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. "