Henry Rollins Quotes

Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses.

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.

Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.