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

Henry Rollins Entertainment See all quotes by Henry Rollins →

React to this quote

More by Henry Rollins

“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.”

“The Ninja, as you know, operates by stealth. And so, case in point: I put out records... no one hears them! I make videos... no one sees! I go on tour.... no one knows! NINJA! I was never here!”

“Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'”

“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.”

“I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?”

“Someone who would go across a desert that can kill you, to get to another country? You want to be an American *that* bad? 'Cause I've never had to lift my damn finger to be an American. I'm honored to share a country with you.”

Resonant Thoughts

"I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows."

— Stephen Chbosky

Literature1970

#life

"Destiny so ruled that when I found myself at the helm of this state it already was clear that something was wrong in this country. We had a lot of everything - land, oil and gas, other natural resourc…"

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Politics1921–1981

#life

"He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites — and escapes."

— Joseph Conrad

fiction1857–1924

#life

"I'm told L.A. Law's success — the fact that his ethnicity was very much part of his identity and he was a great lawyer — caused an increase in applicants to law schools. I got requests to be a keynote…"

— Jimmy Smits

Law1955

#life