Henry Rollins Quotes

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

I just knew I was different from everyone else. I still feel like that today, sitting in rooms with people.

I never felt like I belong to anything - to any groups of friends. I never really had that.

It's so easy as a teen to feel like everybody is having this normal experience - except you. You're on the outside.

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

Pretty much everywhere I go, I'm pretty much thinking I'm going to be bounced. I am still the outsider who snuck into the party. I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.

At 6 years old I knew there was no place for me.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

I've felt like an outsider. I've had to struggle.

I was not the popular kid in school.

I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something.

I want to be together with everyone else but stay lonely.

I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.

I've always felt so unconnected to other comedians.

The party life that had once given me so much confidence and comfort had turned into a nightmare where I never felt more alone.

I tended to be the nerdy kid - stood at the back, watching other people having fun - I wasn't always necessarily a big part of the fun myself.

I'm one of these guys who always feel like the outsider, you know? I'm always longing to be part of something, you know?

I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy. I'm half way in between a wallflower at a party and Elvis Presley. People love one or the other. In between is no place to be.

I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.