“Do you ever get the feeling that when you show someone your affection for them, you are assaulting them? Like you should probably leave them alone? Your affection, no matter how sincere, does not necessarily mean a damn thing to the person you are giving it to. Love can corner you. When you intrude on someone with your affection, you might find yourself trying to knock a strong door down with your shoulder. Either you break the door or you break yourself. Something almost always gets broken. In my mind it runs like this: I’m going to like you, whether you like it or not. I’ll wear you down until you relent and swallow this big lie I have for you. Don’t move. Don’t live. I love you.”
“Do you ever get the feeling that when you show someone your affection for them, you are assaulting them? Like you should probably leave them alone? Your affection, no matter how sincere, does not necessarily mean a damn thing to the person you are giving it to. Love can corner you. When you intrude on someone with your affection, you might find yourself trying to knock a strong door down with your shoulder. Either you break the door or you break yourself. Something almost always gets broken. In my mind it runs like this: I’m going to like you, whether you like it or not. I’ll wear you down until you relent and swallow this big lie I have for you. Don’t move. Don’t live. I love you.”
Henry Rollins
“I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking”
Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
Henry Rollins“She lit my soul and inhaled deeplyFlicking my ashes occasionally.”
Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins“I think to myself: I don't want to survive this oneI want to burn up in the wreckage”
Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins“The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.”
Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins“I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.”
Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins“I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”
Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.”
Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins“Love heals scars love left”
Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.”
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