Henry Rollins Quotes

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

Appearances frequently deceive us, and what at first sight carries with it the face of good proves to be a real evil, whilst an apparent evil oftentimes conceals an extraordinary good

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Things are not always as they seem.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

All is but illusion and disaster.

You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

You think the shadow is the substance.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.