Henry Rollins Quotes

Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal.

I don't want to promote paranoia. It's not like wow, everybody is after me. You know that's not going to be very powerful. A person like Stalin was like that and he was powerful, but it ended up completely destroying him because he couldn't trust anyone.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

I lack trust in others.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.

I have trust issues.

I don't like people because I don't trust them.

When you don't trust people all of the sudden you stop trusting anything.

Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

Just because people don't trust people doesn't mean [they] don't like them. There are lots of paranoid people in the world. You figure out their personalities and make them work.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

I can never quite trust anybody anymore.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?

I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?

I'm always suspicious of people, especially being in a weird realm of people kind of knowing me... and not knowing what people's motives might be.

No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.