Henry Rollins Quotes

I hate hype.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

I'm just not happy with Hollywood.

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

In regards to the reaction to Life Is Killing Me, I would say that I'm never happy about anything.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Somebody's upset with every movie.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

Some people will always be disappointed.