Henry Rollins Quotes

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

I can't give up my own identity.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Vices make very good patriots?

If they [peple] really hate you, that means you're doing something right.

You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.

We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.

If you’re hard on yourself, life will be easy on you.

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions

It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.

In the end you become part of everything you hate, basically.

When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.

All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.

Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.

I don't let the hate go to my heart, and I don't let the praise go to my head.

FORTITUDE IS THE CAPACITY TO SAY NO WHEN THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR 'YES'

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.