110+ Robin Williams Quotes On Happiness, Death And Marriage

Robin Williams was an American actor and comedian known for his improvisational skills and iconic performances in films such as Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society, and Mrs. Doubtfire. He was renowned for his ability to make people laugh and his kind-heartedness. Williams tragically passed away in 2014 at the age of 63. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Robin Williams on happiness, life, love.

Top 10 Robin Williams Quotes

1. I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
2. No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
3. I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.
4. I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole."
5. Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.
6. I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
7. Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
8. Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
9. Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.
10. You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Robin Williams Image Quotes

I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole." — Robin Williams

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you. — Robin Williams

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. — Robin Williams

Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason. — Robin Williams

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. — Robin Williams

Robin Williams Short Quotes

• There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.
• If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
• Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
• When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
• Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.
• Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums
• We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
• The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
• If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus.
• What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.

Robin Williams Quotes About Happiness

All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me. — Robin Williams

I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it's independent or a studio movie. I'm much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it. — Robin Williams

When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence — Robin Williams

I know size can be daunting but don't be afraid. — Robin Williams

I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it. — Robin Williams

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing. — Robin Williams

Robin Williams Quotes About Life

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Robin Williams

And some people say Jesus wasn't Jewish. Of COURSE he was Jewish! 30 years old, single, lives with his parents, come on! He works in his father's business, his mom thought he was God's gift, he's Jewish! Give it up! — Robin Williams

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. — Robin Williams

Kid, if You Need Booze or Drugs to Enjoy Your Life to the Fullest, You're Doing It Wrong. — Robin Williams

Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me. — Robin Williams

There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer. — Robin Williams

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. — Robin Williams

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it. — Robin Williams

The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter. — Robin Williams

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome. — Robin Williams

Robin Williams Quotes About Love

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. — Robin Williams

But if there's love, dear... those are the ties that bind, and you'll have a family in your heart, forever. — Robin Williams

If I asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. — Robin Williams

I love running cross-country...You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster. — Robin Williams

I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing. — Robin Williams

Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary. — Robin Williams

If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable. — Robin Williams

I love kids, but they are a tough audience. — Robin Williams

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way. — Robin Williams

There was an old, crazy dude who used to live a long time ago. His name was Lord Buckley. And he said, a long time ago, he said, 'People--they'r e kinda like flowers, and it's been a privilege walking in your garden.' My love goes with you. — Robin Williams

Robin Williams Quotes About Death

Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready. — Robin Williams

Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time. — Robin Williams

Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death. — Robin Williams

Robin Williams Quotes About Laughter

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter. — Robin Williams

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing. — Robin Williams

The truth is, if anything, I'm probably addicted to laughter. — Robin Williams

Robin Williams Quotes About Sadness

Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys - to woo women - and in that endeavor, laziness will not do. — Robin Williams

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah. — Robin Williams

My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly. — Robin Williams

Robin Williams Quotes About Music

You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars. — Robin Williams

You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings. — Robin Williams

Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish. — Robin Williams

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love. — Robin Williams

I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music. — Robin Williams

Robin Williams Quotes About Funny

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures. — Robin Williams

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church. — Robin Williams

What is this demilitarized zone? Whatever it is, I like it! Gets you on your toes better than a strong cup of cappuccino. — Robin Williams

We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that! — Robin Williams

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be. — Robin Williams

You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer. — Robin Williams

In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.' — Robin Williams

When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in. — Robin Williams

I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, 'Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?' And I said, 'Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?' — Robin Williams

Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full." — Robin Williams

Robin Williams Quotes About People

People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I'm an air breather, I've gotten used to that over the years. — Robin Williams

The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they're not. Ah, that's the good stuff! — Robin Williams

I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Bahrain. The first year I went pretty much by myself. Then I went with General [Richard] Myers, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The shows and audiences were amazing. You'll never get a better group of people. — Robin Williams

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand. — Robin Williams

Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing. — Robin Williams

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. — Robin Williams

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people. — Robin Williams

Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn. — Robin Williams

I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia. — Robin Williams

Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it. — Robin Williams

Robin Williams Quotes About Idea

The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that. — Robin Williams

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself. — Robin Williams

The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task. — Robin Williams

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. — Robin Williams

Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having. — Robin Williams

I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken. — Robin Williams

The idea of having a steady job is appealing. — Robin Williams

My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled. — Robin Williams

I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process. — Robin Williams

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you. — Robin Williams

Robin Williams Quotes About Work

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work! — Robin Williams

The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend. — Robin Williams

I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience. — Robin Williams

When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work. — Robin Williams

I prefer to be handcuffed at home. The idea of voice work to me is great fun, especially when it's a chance to do two different voices. — Robin Williams

With mountain biking, it's always that constant thing, negotiating singletrack, which I like, but for a road ride that rhythm is really Buddhist. When you get a good pedal stoke, it's that thing of everything works. — Robin Williams

The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running. — Robin Williams

When you really do find a new idea or you're in and it's all working, that's the gift. It's like a musician when they hit a riff, that's when you're like all right, it's mellow. You back off and just ride it. — Robin Williams

The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the idea of really working off other people. I'm having more fun doing that. — Robin Williams

It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work. — Robin Williams

Robin Williams Quotes About Started

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see. — Robin Williams

I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole! — Robin Williams

Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started. — Robin Williams

I got to ninth grade and there was wrestling, and I went, 'Wait a minute, this is fun.' Basically, it was a chance for a small kid like me to get a chance to wail on another small kid. I went, 'I love this.' The discipline of it was great. Plus, I really started to be good at it. — Robin Williams

I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born. — Robin Williams

I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie. — Robin Williams

Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone. — Robin Williams

Robin Williams Famous Quotes And Sayings

I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole." — Robin Williams

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you. — Robin Williams

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. — Robin Williams

Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason. — Robin Williams

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. — Robin Williams

My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case." — Robin Williams

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' — Robin Williams

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all. — Robin Williams

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string. — Robin Williams

Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.' — Robin Williams

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture. — Robin Williams

Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.' — Robin Williams

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money. — Robin Williams

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. — Robin Williams

When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? — Robin Williams

When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family? — Robin Williams

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose. — Robin Williams

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are. — Robin Williams

Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: "You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer." Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, "It's 5:00 in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time." — Robin Williams

It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut. — Robin Williams

There's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there. — Robin Williams

My favorite is when you go to Afghanistan and you meet the special forces guys, and they look like these heavily armed surfers. These guys are the best. You see guys dressed as full Afghans, but then wearing a Yankees hat. — Robin Williams

Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet. — Robin Williams

You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter. — Robin Williams

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. — Robin Williams

Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die. — Robin Williams

When in doubt, go for the dick joke. — Robin Williams

Just now when I said, "I have a crush on you," you didn't say, "no way loser". I'd rather have a lobotomy by a leper. That means something — Robin Williams

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone. — Robin Williams

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven. — Robin Williams

[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great! — Robin Williams

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for. — Robin Williams

Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really. — Robin Williams

After my training wheels, my first real bike was a Schwinn, and my first time out, I rode down a hill, didn’t know how to stop, and ran right into a tree. So, that was a nice experience ... like realizing, oh, there are brakes! — Robin Williams

No man is an island; but some are peninsulas. — Robin Williams

The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe. — Robin Williams

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. — Robin Williams

The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ? — Robin Williams

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary. — Robin Williams

Comedy is acting out optimism. — Robin Williams

They're talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision - you either go all the way or forget it. — Robin Williams

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" — Robin Williams

Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer! — Robin Williams

Come on now! You kick out the gooks, the next thing you know, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks, the kikes and all that's going to be left is a couple of brain-dead rednecks. — Robin Williams

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself. — Robin Williams

You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian — Robin Williams

You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks. — Robin Williams

To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity. — Robin Williams

Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad. — Robin Williams

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them. — Robin Williams

You don't need cocaine! There's another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it's called marathon running! — Robin Williams

Here's the best birth control in the whole world, if you really, if you have no pills, if you have no diaphragm, if you have no other form of contraception. Use it for ladies, if he comes at you with that little thing in his hand, just laugh at it. They can't deal with it, OK, it'll be gone. — Robin Williams

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am. — Robin Williams

We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. There’s evidence of water on Mars and rivers and it didn’t take. Also, we have planets to guard us like Jupiter and Saturn that take the hits of the comets. It is miraculous that we exist on this planet, that it took. — Robin Williams

We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers. — Robin Williams

Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth. — Robin Williams

Life Lessons by Robin Williams

1. Robin Williams taught us to always look for the humor in life, no matter how difficult the situation. He showed us that laughter can be a powerful tool for healing and connecting with others.
2. He also reminded us to never take ourselves too seriously and to always be open to new experiences and ideas.
3. Finally, he showed us that it is possible to be both vulnerable and strong, and to always strive to be kind and generous.