Henry Rollins Quotes

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

I am here today as an example to all that have gone through a personal hell or are going through it right now, whatever that hell might be for you, that you can become whole again. In fact, you can become stronger than you ever thought possible.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.

Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.

All this pain is going to come back and make me stronger.

Injuries make you stronger.

Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it.

Everybody has losses, and sometimes they're worse than others, but you can always bounce back.

Scars remind you of difficult places in your life that you've championed.

With loss comes growth.

New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

There is a tomorrow after a disaster, and it's sometimes hard to remember that in the midst of it.

Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.