Life Quotes by Tom Robbins

Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.

— Tom Robbins

A writer needs a life of introspection.

— Tom Robbins

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

— Tom Robbins

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

— Tom Robbins

“the notion of life implies a certain absoluteness of self-enjoyment”

— Tom Robbins

“The purpose of art is to provide what life does not.”

— Tom Robbins

“anything that says Yes to life is automatically saying No to war.”

— Tom Robbins

Life is hard if you think it's hard.

— Tom Robbins

Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!

— Tom Robbins

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

— Tom Robbins

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

— Tom Robbins

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

— Tom Robbins

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

— Tom Robbins

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

— Tom Robbins

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

— Tom Robbins

“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.”

— Tom Robbins

The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately…

— Tom Robbins

I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot…

— Tom Robbins

I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the…

— Tom Robbins

“As long as there are fuses, no walls are safe. As long as every wall is threatened, the world can happen. Outlaws…

— Tom Robbins

“Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and…

— Tom Robbins

If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness…

— Tom Robbins

At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing…

— Tom Robbins

Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand…

— Tom Robbins

You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have…

— Tom Robbins

“There's no such thing as security in this life sweetheart, and the sooner you accept that fact, the better off you'll be.…

— Tom Robbins

“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly…

— Tom Robbins

...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend…

— Tom Robbins

“Ritual he liked, but compulsory routine he hated. Thus, he resented every minute that he now had to surrender to showering, shampooing,…

— Tom Robbins

I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So…

— Tom Robbins

“When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a…

— Tom Robbins

I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote, but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on…

— Tom Robbins

“To pragmatists, the letter Z is nothing more than a phonetically symbolic glyph, a minor sign easily learned, readily assimilated, and occasionally…

— Tom Robbins

“If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we…

— Tom Robbins

“If you lack the iron and the fuzz to take control of your own life, if you insist on leaving your fate…

— Tom Robbins

“Now and again, one could detect in a childless woman of a certain age the various characteristics of all the children she…

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“i've lived most of my entire adult life outside the law, and never have i compromised with authority. but neither have i…

— Tom Robbins

“We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' that often seems to…

— Tom Robbins

“Perhaps a person gains by accumulating obstacles. The more obstacles set up to prevent happiness from appearing, the greater the shock when…

— Tom Robbins

“You see, at that juncture in my life I wasn’t evolved enough to understand the fluid nature of romantic love (its indifference…

— Tom Robbins