Henry Rollins Quotes

When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.

It feels so good to tell the truth.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

You just have to make sure you're writing about something that's true. It has to be honest and it has to have a real emotion behind it, regardless of where it's coming from.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy.

The truth is not always what we want to hear.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

Honesty, vulnerability, pain - these are things that always supersede the trends of the day.

The truth hurts sometimes, particularly when it involves someone at a low point in their life.

I just feel like sometimes people don't want to hear the truth. It's hard when you hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. Sometimes I have a hard time with that because I'm very honest.

Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.