Henry Rollins Quotes

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

I have accumulated no money but I accumulate a lot of happiness. If you get rich, you have an apartment with an extra bedroom - and then you die.

Some of these rich folks seem to think that everything belongs to them and they'll even get to take it with them when they die. But you know what? You don't ever see a hearse pulling a U Haul.

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

I have a suit in my closet with the pocket cut out. It's a reminder to me that I won't be taking anything with me. The last suit I wear won't need any pockets.

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich.

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be.

Always remember this. Television, fame, money - listen, here is a news flash for America. Fame cannot remove your sin. And all of the money you ever amass cannot raise you from the dead.