The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies_x000D_ _x000D_ You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong _x000D_ _x000D_ The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you're gonna get it wrong _x000D_ _x000D_ And it's gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom.
Interpretation
Reality can be misleading and subjective, leading to misunderstandings and consequences.
In this quote, Henry Rollins expresses the idea that our perceptions of the world around us, including our experiences and emotions, can often be deceptive. He suggests that despite our attempts to understand or interpret these experiences, we are likely to misread their significance. The imagery of summer evenings that both burn and glitter emphasizes the duality of beauty and danger, ultimately warning that misunderstanding reality can lead to painful consequences.
In practice
This quote can be used as a reflection during a personal development workshop.
Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.
Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.
Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.
When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything.
If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in power, and telling people what they should believe...they're really more a kind of secular priesthood, whose task it is to uphold the doctrinal truths of the society. And the population SHOULD be anti-intellectual in that repect.
There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.
The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.
We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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