Henry Rollins Quotes

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

The only people who try to tell you that you can’t do something, are the people who have failed

I don't mean to cast a dark shadow on all your hopes and dreams, except of course I do, because that is who I am. I'm a dream ruiner.

People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.

Critics build nothing.

It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

Haters...are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.

O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.

A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

& these haters try to knock me but they can't knock me off the hinges.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

People will try to rain on your parade because they have no parade of their own.

Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

I had much more fun criticizing than praising.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

Don't be drinking the Haterade.

Negative people will always criticize