Henry Rollins Quotes

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.'

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

The trouble that they see me in is a part of my life that I'm working on.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

A man that could look no way but downward, with a muckrake in his hand.

The more challenges you face in life, the more of life you experience - this lived experience gives one the 'influence' to impact others' lives.

It's hard to define change in oneself unless something really dramatic happens, like you give up some vice, fall in love, or something like that.

The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call.

There's a strong melancholic streak in me.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I was told I'd never work again, but once you come out, it's like someone turns on the lights, and your life will be different.

It was a sort of weird, troubled road into acting because I had been a bit naughty in school until I did my Highers, and then I was like, 'Oh, I think I'm going to apply myself and surprise everyone.'

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.

All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'

You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.

When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

You are not crazy. You are just ready to change.

Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.