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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  Edmund Burke
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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

  

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

  

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• 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
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• The greatest evil is physical pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• 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.

  

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• People play with pain all the time.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• 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
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  • Up
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• 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
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• 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.

  

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

  

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• 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
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• Going to spring break at Ft. Lauderdale, getting drunk and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of a patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to know she is even in distress.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
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• In the highly improbable event of his being asked to nominate the one most un-Jewish thing he could think of, Sefton Goldberg would have been hard pressed to decide between Nature – that's to say birds, trees, flowers, and country walks – and football – that's to say beer, bikies, mud, and physical pain.

  

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• The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.

  

  Maelle Gavet
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  • Start

• The reality about shooting films is that you can shoot many jokes and decide later which one works. So it's not worth fighting about jokes.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
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• American myths have never been colorless.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.

  

  Kabir
  • Heart
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• 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