Henry Rollins Quotes

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

I am a deeply superficial person.

We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Freedom’s Keystone is Slavery.

At home, I'm the silliest cornball who talks way too much and wants to be quiet and left alone at the same time.

The idea of 'Freedom's Goblin,' to me, leads to a wild conversation. I would hope that father and son, driving home from the record store, could have a conversation about what that title means. Because to me, it's the duality of being free: the evil and the good, and how it's a constant paradox.

What stands out about me the most? Probably my chains. I don't know.

Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.

Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.