See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die Quotes

“You don't make me feel like you used to.
That's why I'm leaving
That's why people leave each other
They come to their senses and get selfish again.”
― Henry Rollins, See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die

“I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression
Hide in sleep
Damage myself in dreams
Wake up older, slightly more used.”
― Henry Rollins, See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die

“Don't push me
I've got a corner at my back
I've nowhere to go except over you.”
― Henry Rollins, See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die

“I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself.
I'm the only one I would put through this.
Wheels and wings,
The ride is everything.
I'm all I've got.
I'm all I can take.
Another day has destroyed a part of me.
So far so good.”
― Henry Rollins, See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die

“Always knowing you're going to die
And until then knowing you've got to live.”
― Henry Rollins, See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die

“Life forgets me but will not let me forget
Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.”
― Henry Rollins, See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die

“I have to keep moving
I don't want to think
I'm going to work all day today
I don't want to stop
Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts
How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow
A grey patch of cold rotting life”
― Henry Rollins, See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die

“Don't let despair mutate your flesh
Look at my twisted stumps of thought
See the fingers, listen to the voice
I am slowly becoming the end of the line.”
― Henry Rollins, See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die

“She is the gin. Cold, intoxicating. Gives you a rush, makes you warm inside, makes you lose your head. Take too much, it makes you sick and shuts you down.

He is the coffee, hot, steaming, filtered. You have to add stuff to it to make it taste good. Grinds your stomach, makes you jittery, wired, and tense. Bad trip, keeps you up, burns you out.

Coffee and gin don’t mix, never do, everybody keeps trying and trying to make it taste good.”
― Henry Rollins, See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die

“I want to be that which overcomes itself Listening to them makes me weak and small I watch them go out and fuck each other They tell me that I’m crazy The years scar me I don’t want a smooth ride I want the crushing wheel”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“The power of depression is undeniable
When I’m in its grip
I don’t remember ever feeling any other way”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“They’re all over me I smell their beer breath mixed with my sweat I can’t answer all the questions, I can barely think straight Now I’m alone in the room To be hard you must be alone To withstand this shit you must be hard The logic works itself out right in front you Be alone as much as you can If you want to hit like a ton of fire You have to get to the essential number One”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“Will I ever meet someone
That will take the bitter taste from my mouth?
I am loneliness
I wish I had someone to miss”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“There’s a small part of my heart that’s always sad
Part of me that walks with a slow aching step
Forever longing
The beauty of that
To be forever longing
Too much joy makes the time pass too quickly
A bit of sadness slows things down so you can see it”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“I want to be in love with a woman
One who loved me
One who could show me I could trust her
One who could show me
That I didn’t have to be on my guard all the time”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“Her mouth is a soft explosion of roses
A burst of raw animal definition
For a few moments I was mortal”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“You are the reason I don’t want to die all the time
When I am with you life is worth living
Time away from you is strange and full of pain
When I look into your eyes
I can see how life has savaged you
It’s ok if you fall
I will be there to catch you
Anyone that would want to hurt you
Would have to kill me to do it
I will never be able to pound words into lines
To match the velocity of your presence”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“Getting rid of you is a good thing, that’s why I don’t write you back
I’m vomiting every memory from my system”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“I wish I wasn’t alive as much as you are dead”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“I couldn’t tell if I was being distant to someone, or rude or even hostile. I only know a good night and a bad night. I know that I remember the bad night longer than the good night.”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“Have you ever experienced something so great
That years later you regretted the whole thing
Seeing the hole it left in you?”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“It’s your life time that is short and running out all the time
So what are you doing taking drugs?
Why are you putting cigarette smoke in those beautiful lungs of
yours?
What are you drinking that poison for?
Weeks ago sections of this city burned to the ground
For nothing
Months ago my best friend was shot in the face and killed on my
front porch
For nothing
Life time’s up for him
You’re different
You’re alive, you’re breathing
I’d like to see you stay that way
Don’t do anything for nothing
You’re too important
This trip is all about you”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“I’m not going to bother with you anymore
I don’t need all the extra thought
I got enough right now as it is
Not going to wait for your phone calls
Not going to think about you
And what it would be like it were different
It’s not different
It’s like this”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“I am a broken man
Washed ashore in humanity’s
Low tide
Dislocated
I feel no kinship with humans
I do my best
To forget myself”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“I don’t want to have to defend you to people who will talk shit
I would do it though
Always
So take good care of yourself
If you forget how
Call me
I’ll remind you”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“Strange stranger reaching out
Grabbing hold in this mindless blindness
I search and destroy for kindness
That sits in my imagination’s mind
Across a burning field
Across a drenching jungle
Strange stranger strangely as you go
I’ve always never seen you
But you’re the only one I know”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“Don’t touch me
I’ll feel too good
I’ll fall apart
The only thing holding me together is my pain”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“look at the phone thinking about calling out there
There’s no one to call
Just voices
Other worlds
Sometimes I feel so thrown down
So used up and vacant
That I have to let time pass me by”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“If I could I would melt into your arms
I would fall like ten dead languages
I would not front
I would not lie to you
I don’t think I could lie anymore
I have grown too old for such youthful pursuits
I want to love someone before I die
Hurry
It won’t be long now”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

“I lie on my side
I wonder how much pain and horror can be contained
In one human mind
I turn on the light
All I can think about is going somewhere”
― Henry Rollins, See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die