Henry Rollins Quotes

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

I think about death all the time. I think that's a good thing because we're all going to die, and the only thing we can control is how we are and what we're doing in the meantime.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.

A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

You need to think and live your life. You only live once. That's how it is.