Henry Rollins Quotes

. . . Cultivating good humor may be helpful in finding our own identity. Young people who are trying to find out who they really are often have concerns as to their ability to meet and cope with the challenges that confront them and that lie ahead. They will find that it is easier to ride over the bumps and come quickly to their own identity if they cultivate the good humor that comes naturally. It is important that we all learn to laugh at ourselves.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.

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.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.

I think when you get to that point in your life where you're the first to laugh at yourself, you're at the best place of your life.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

I am what I am - which is I have aged.

I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.

I'm doing the best I can with the ravages of time on my body and I'm a work in progress. I can't write a memoir because I can't do it this week or next week... I try to be an inspiration to the young to respect their older people; we can't stay the same, but we do the best we can with what's left. You can't whine about stuff, you have to learn to eat humble pie along the way and keep going, because the alternative is going to happen.

The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously.

I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

As I get older, I'm more comfortable in my skin.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.