Henry Rollins Quotes

How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

I wonder if I shall ever see her again, and I realize that I scarcely care. I can feel the sheets beneath me, and the cold air on my chest. I feel fine. I feel absolutely fine. I feel nothing at all.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

So what’s it like to live without emotions? (Geary) It’s hard. Imagine a world without taste. A world where you can see the colors and all, but you can’t feel it. A beautiful clear day can never choke you up. A child’s laughter doesn’t make you smile. You don’t look at a bunny and think ‘how cute.’ You feel absolutely nothing. It’s like being wrapped in thick cotton all the time. (Arik)

I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY

I can’t seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

I remember thinking I couldn't be bothered to feel any emotions any more.

Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake it all. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there.

She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.

One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.

It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out.

The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.

Acting like you don’t care is a whole lot easier when you don’t care

In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?