Henry Rollins Quotes

All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

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• Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Beauty
  • Most
  • Distress

• We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Pain

• I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Pain
  • Tears
  • Many

• I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Pain
  • My Life

• I would say probably my least favorite costume ever was in 'Van Helsing.' That was a huge pain because it had thigh-high boots with 30 buckles on them that had to be done up individually.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Done
  • High

• If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Pain
  • Ready
  • Reach

• I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Pain
  • Really
  • Highway

• When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Pain
  • Moment
  • Down

• The greatest evil is physical pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Medical

• Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Pain

• People play with pain all the time.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Time
  • Pain

• Pain is good, I'd say, when it's incidental to Love. In 'I give up my life for my friend' it is my friend, not my death, that matters. And sometimes I needn't give up my life for him, I can live for him, and with him, and the power of the spirit is then equally manifested, I should think.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • Up
  • Experience

• The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Pain
  • Moments

• The very word 'sorrow' colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Pain

• O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,To come to me: of cureless ills thou artThe one physician. Pain lays not its touchUpon a corpse.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Death
  • Pain

• If you want to freak your cat out, stare at your cat. If you want to reassure your cat, stare at your cat, then very deliberately and very slowly blink. Like that. The cat will also deliberately, slowly blink back at you, and I almost guarantee that she will start to purr. That's a feline reassurance.

  

  Walter Murch
  • She
  • Want
  • Start

• I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

  

  Jessica Pare
  • Movie
  • Player

• You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Know
  • Always
  • Positive

• The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Character
  • History
  • India

• All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Pain
  • Revenge
  • Deeper