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Tom Robbins Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american author Tom Robbins on topics like love, world, life

  • To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

    — Tom Robbins on achieve
    97
  • We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

    — Tom Robbins on love
    31
  • We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

    — Tom Robbins on plays
    18
  • Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

    — Tom Robbins on accomplice
    12
  • Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

    — Tom Robbins on believing
    11
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  • In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn’t squeak.

    — Tom Robbins on art
    8
  • True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

    A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

    — Tom Robbins on balanced
    7
  • There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

    — Tom Robbins on dying
    5
  • Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy.

    Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.

    — Tom Robbins on nakedness
    5
  • Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

    — Tom Robbins on folly
    3
  • To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

    — Tom Robbins on health
    3
  • Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

    — Tom Robbins on humanity
    3
  • About Tom Robbins

    Name Tom Robbins
    Quotes 30 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Author
    Birthday July 22, 1932
    About Thomas Eugene Robbins (born July 22, 1936 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina) is an American author. His novels are complex, often wild stories with strong social undercurrents, a satirical bent, and obscure details. His novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976) was made into a movie in 1993 directed by Gus Van Sant.
    Top topics love, world, life, system, question
  • Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

    — Tom Robbins on masses
    2
  • Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words make and stay become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.

    — Tom Robbins on love
    2
  • If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up wild cataracts, dive in deep fjords. One must explore the labyrinth of the reef, the shadows of the lily pads. How limiting, how insulting to think of God as a benevolent warden, an absentee hatchery manager who imprisons us in the 'comfort' of artificial pools, where intermediaries sprinkle our restrictive waters with sanitized flakes of processed nutriment.

    — Tom Robbins on discovery
    1
  • Our lives are not as limited as we think they are;

    the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.

    — Tom Robbins on life
    1
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  • If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

    — Tom Robbins on intelligence
    1
  • Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as many outlaws as has the central nervous system and dissatisfied wives. Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins; tequila, firebug in the house of good taste; O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!

    — Tom Robbins on drinking
    1
  • The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

    — Tom Robbins on love
    0
  • When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic.

    Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.

    — Tom Robbins on love
    0
  • There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world.

    If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

    — Tom Robbins on luck
    0
  • A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

    — Tom Robbins on humor
    0
  • I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.

    — Tom Robbins on cowgirls
    0
  • If you believe in peace, act peacefully;

    if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid - but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.

    — Tom Robbins on peace
    0
  • Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of their ancestors. Humans are the most advanced of mammals – although a case could be made for the dolphins – because they seldom grow up. Behavioral traits such as curiosity about the world, flexibility of response, and playfulness are common to practically all young mammals but are usually rapidly lost with the onset of maturity in all but humans. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

    — Tom Robbins on evolution
    0
  • What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.

    — Tom Robbins on political
    0
  • If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.

    — Tom Robbins on cleanliness
    0
  • When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us.

    When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

    — Tom Robbins on relationships
    0
  • A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time.

    A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let's not kid ourselves - all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences.

    — Tom Robbins on books
    0
  • The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.

    — Tom Robbins on logic
    0
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