“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
Her head tilts back
Her mouth opens slightly
Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt
She is perfect
And you feel like you are everything.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one
of them and I would decline. Part of me wanted to go, but those kind of
outings always made me feel even more alienated than usual. Hearing them
talk made me feel lonely and hateful at the same time. Lonely because I
didn't fit in, never did. When I was reminded, it hurt. And hateful
because it reaffirmed what I already knew, that I was alone and on the
outside.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“A rose trapped inside a fist.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“Whenever I get dumped, I nail the door shut so that no one can come inside, get a towel and clip it around my neck so it's like a Superman cape, take off my shoes so I can slide across the room, and...get a fake mic, like a celery stick or a pen, and I play any record that features the vocalist Ronnie James Dio. And you can just pretend you're Dio, because on every album he does, he has minimum one, usually three, *EVIL WOMAN LOOK OUT!*- songs. And if you wanna point like Dio, it's a three-finger point. (heavy metal voice) 'The exit is that way. Evil LURKS! Evil lurks in twilight! Dances in the DARK! Evil woman! Just WALK AWAY!”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“Damn, I was lonely that autumn. I wished for a girl I could hang out with. I never
really did anything to meet girls, too shy, too fucked up. Autumn makes
me think of women.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“I see walking bombs on the street
Hearts not beating, but ticking”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“She touches me
The jungle lights up with incinerating fire
Looks like a flaming serpent
I look into her eyes
I see a movie flickering
Car crashes
People kicking corpses
Men ripping their tracheas out and shaking them at the sky
I think to myself:
I don’t want to survive this one
I want to burn up in the wreckage
Cooking flesh in the jungle”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“I think to myself:
I don't want to survive this one
I want to burn up in the wreckage”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“I will never let you know how much you hurt me
No, I will never tell you
The lasts few months have sent me into myself
It's not easy to forget you
Time is healing me
I keep my feelings to myself, it helps
I don't understand you or your kind
I end up getting myself messed up
I can't take any more beatings like this”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“She lit my soul and inhaled deeply
Flicking my ashes occasionally.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins
Born place: in Washington, D.C., The United States
Born date February 13, 1961
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“Woke up this morning with
a terrific urge to lie in bed all day
and read. Fought against it for a minute.
Then looked out the window at the rain.
And gave over. Put myself entirely
in the keep of this rainy morning.
Would I live my life over again?
Make the same unforgivable mistakes?
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.”
― Raymond Carver, quote from All of Us: The Collected Poems
“Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.”
― Jane Jacobs, quote from The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“I never exactly made a decision about what come next. It come over me slowly, ticking quietly at the back of my consciousness for the longest time before I even noticed it was there. But I was halfway to the decision already, living in a hut, becoming what I loved.
You would think there`d be a rule to go with that thought, but I had to run way from rules.”
― Meg Rosoff, quote from What I Was
“But strength without flexibility makes one hard. Come September, when those fierce winds blow in from the sea, those hardwoods crack, splinter and fall. But the pliant palms are resilient and they bend with the wind. This is the secret of a Southern woman. Strength, resilience and beauty. We are never hard.”
― Mary Alice Monroe, quote from The Beach House
“empty, what was to stop vagrants, or even”
― Pam Jenoff, quote from The Kommandant's Girl
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