Henry Rollins Quotes

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

I think anything you listen to is going to be different.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.

What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.

Originality is in the eye of the beholder.

The fact that there is no right or wrong is what I think is maddening. I can think you're a phenomenal actor, but the guy next door can think you're a horrible actor, and neither of us is wrong and neither of us is right. It's just a matter of opinion.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

Beauty is an opinion not a fact.

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even bear the sound of one teacher's voice. Yet they are wonderful teachers for other people. They just are not for me.

You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener.

People strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it's impossible because it's a form of opinion. I can think someone is pretty but the person next to me can think that they're unattractive.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.