“The moon will never lie to anyone. Be like the moon. No one hates the moon or wants to kill it. The moon does not take antidepressants and never gets sent to prison. The moon never shot a guy in the face and ran away. The moon has been around a long time and has never tried to rip anyone off. The moon does not care who you want to touch or what color you are. The moon treats everyone the same. The moon never tries to get in on the guest list or use your name to impress others. Be like the moon. When others insult or belittle in an attempt to elevate themselves, the moon sits passively and watches, never lowering itself to anything that weak. The moon is beautiful and bright. It needs no makeup to look beautiful. The moon never shoves clouds out of its way so it can be seen. The moon needs not fame or money to be powerful. The moon never asks you to go to war to defend it. Be like the moon.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“ You can get what you want. Never sell out. Don't break. Don't weaken. Don't let the kindness of strangers be your salvation, for it is no salvation at all. Unless you sleep alone, you sleep with the enemy. Never come out of the storm. On the other hand, maybe you should. You don't have what it takes to go the hard way. Come out of the cold and sit by the fire. Let them warm you with the smiles and promise of friendship's fortune. Lose your edge. A soft body and chained mind suit you. Chances are you don't have what it takes to walk the frozen trail. Stay home and relax.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“You can find me in the frozen mood section.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“I look at pictures of you because I am afraid that you would notice me staring in real life. I looked at your picture today for countless minutes. It is closer than I’ll ever get to you for real. I felt like I was looking at a captured animal at a safe distance. If you knew I was doing this, you would feel sickened and frightened. That’s why you’ll never know. Years will go by and you’ll never know. I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“My feelings for you shame me into silence.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“You can still function as a living ruin.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“Basically, men are afraid of women and can’t handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“It is you who makes me see what I really am.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
“Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain a world that could hold me as the bolts shake loose and fly from my frame.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from Solipsist
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Born date February 13, 1961
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“I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her.”
― Sarah Dessen, quote from Someone Like You
“Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.”
― J.D. Salinger, quote from Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
“But he was bigger and stronger and his hands reached up behind her to the back of her head, ignoring her denials and pinning her in place. When his mouth finally landed on hers, the combination of his alcohol soaked breath and his brutish unrestrained actions made her quiver sickly beneath him …… she felt like she was going to puke.”
― Kimberly Derting, quote from The Body Finder
“You!’ said the old man contemptuously. ‘What do you know of the time when young men shut themselves up in those lonely rooms, and read and read, hour after hour, and night after night, till their reason wandered beneath their midnight studies; till their mental powers were exhausted; till morning’s light brought no freshness or health to them; and they sank beneath the unnatural devotion of their youthful energies to their dry old books?”
― Charles Dickens, quote from The Pickwick Papers
“Humans often assumed symmetry and equality where none existed.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from The Cuckoo's Calling
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