Henry Rollins Quotes: 12

• Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

• The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

• We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

• I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

• Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

• Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

• Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

• 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.

  The Portable Henry Rollins

• I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become.

• Love heals scars love left

  The Portable Henry Rollins

• I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

• I used to love youI still doSo SelfishI love the old youThe you that didnt shoot drugs...The you that didnt get beat on by menYou laugh in my face and call me a foolBut its trueI still love youSometimes,I can see the old youWhen your eyes flashWhen you almost look alive