Henry Rollins Quotes

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.

There are ills that happen for good.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

With every problem comes a gift in hand.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.

Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.

Every burden is a blessing.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

One man’s oddball is another man’s square.

When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them …

Every crisis has within it, opportunity. Every crisis has within it, danger.

Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.

Every time something bad happens to me, I don't ask the question, 'Why did it happen to me?' The question I ask is, 'Why did it happen for me?'

Honestly, sometimes, it takes a negative to bring about a positive.