There are many inspiring people in the world, but only very few people allow that inspiration to spill into the world around them. One of those very few people, that have let their inspiring personality change the world, is Henry Rollins. He is an American singer, author, actor, comedian, musician, presenter, and activist. He was perhaps initially best known as the singer for Black Flag, an early hardcore punk band. And he has also leads the Rollins Band.
Henry has no issue sharing any thoughts that may arise. He has written several books in which he portrays a strong emotion towards freedom and fearlessness in what he does. He is genuine, genuine, creative and very optimistic in all that he does. Many things he has shared with people in the past quite possibly could have changed their life or even their perspective on life, just as it may yours.
Henry Rollins Quotes
Below are 62 of Henry Rollins’ most inspiring quotes.
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
“Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.”
“My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.”
“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.”
“When life hands you a lemon, say, ‘Oh yeah! I like lemons! What else ya got?’”
“I’ll be here tomorrow if I can make it through today.”
“You can still function as a living ruin.”
“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.”
“It is you who makes me see what I really am.”
“Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t.”
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“When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.”
“Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.”
“Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.”
“You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.”
“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.”
“Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn’t worth the time and effort.”
“Early spring is the time for a vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.”
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“If you really want to rebel against your parents: Outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.”
“I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.”
“Yes, I guess you could say I’m a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people than I do on my own.”
“I want to change things for the better, just like everyone else.”
“As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.”
“I’ve always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you’ve got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn’t supposed to be easy.”
“What I don’t want to do is go out there and not mean it, you know?”
“The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees, and being nice to little lapdogs.”
“I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.”
“To hate is to show you still care, who needs that? Focus on what’s important.:
“I don’t want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.”
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“I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.”
“I don’t believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn’t matter—It’s only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.”
“Maybe I’m ego-tripping but I don’t find myself a particularly horrible person so I don’t think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.”
“I think more tolerance, more people having access to a change to be literate, and a chance to be healthy makes for a peaceful planet.”
“I want to learn more about the world, it makes me want to get up and go.”
“We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.”
“Change is hard but change is good.”
“I’m not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.”
“I don’t think you’ll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error and so we’re always in search of an upgrade.”
“There’s always going to be a need for activism: There’s always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.”
“Music to me is mankind’s greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.”
“When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it’s like Sahara desert, you can’t even see across it.”
“I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.”
“You must never lower yourself to being a person you don’t like.”
“Without an education, you won’t have a future.”
“I’m not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I’m weird, but it’s not harmful weird.”
“Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression— from being open to trying things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will. Hope you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.”
“The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.”
“I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.”
“You might as well enjoy the day–you never know when and how painfully it could all end.”
“Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me.”
“If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.”
“It’s not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immorality about them and you can’t imagine that they will ever be gone.”
“Please don’t think that I am one of those squishy types who can’t handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines, and am forced to pass for normal all the time.”
“Think about it. No matter who you are the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front.”
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“Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.”
“I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.”
“Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results requires guts and care.”
“Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.”
“I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high then it’s up to me to pass or fail.”
“Life is weird, great, and dangerous.”
“Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.
“One person’s roar is another person’s whine, just as one’s person’s music is another’s endurable noise.”
Summary
There is absolutely no doubt that Henry Rollins is an inspiring man with plenty of good intell on a happier lifestyle where everyone could just be themselves without judgement. He believes in a peaceful world full of optimism and strength as long as we move forward with it.
Henry understands that many things don’t come easy, but the things that don’t come easy are the things worth fighting for. These things by itself, from anyone, are enough to inspire you to produce change, no matter how hard it may be.
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