Gregory David Roberts

“Now sadly there is attitude and no style.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“Anything that can be put in a nutshell, should remain there.”

— Gregory David Roberts

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

— Gregory David Roberts

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

— Gregory David Roberts

“Silences can wound as surely as the twisting lash.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“and violent, and they need to fear it. If”

— Gregory David Roberts

“They make a religion of being greedy.”

— Gregory David Roberts

Sometimes you have to lose to win

— Gregory David Roberts

“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.”

— Gregory David Roberts

It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

— Gregory David Roberts

“The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, Didier once said, is that it works so well.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“When the heart has its moment of truth & sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.”

— Gregory David Roberts

Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.

— Gregory David Roberts

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

— Gregory David Roberts

Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

— Gregory David Roberts

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

— Gregory David Roberts

“Fear and guilt are the dark angels that haunt rich men, Khader said to me once. I wasn't sure if that was…

— Gregory David Roberts

“It's said that you can never go home again, and it's true enough, of course. But the opposite is also true. You…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Most of us pretend, with greater or lesser success, that the minute we live in is something we can share. But the…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Every door is a portal leading through time as well as space. The same doorway that leads us into and out of…

— Gregory David Roberts

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that…

— Gregory David Roberts

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is:…

— Gregory David Roberts

One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?

— Gregory David Roberts

“I heard a warning, deep within - we usually do , when something worse than we can imagine is stalking us, and…

— Gregory David Roberts

I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again.…

— Gregory David Roberts

“The ancient Sanskrit legends speak of a destined love, a karmic connection between souls that are fated to meet and collide and…

— Gregory David Roberts

There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly,…

— Gregory David Roberts

Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and…

— Gregory David Roberts

“The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Remember,' Khader said insistently, resting his hand on my forearm to emphasise his words. 'Sometimes it is necessary to do the wrong…

— Gregory David Roberts

Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the…

— Gregory David Roberts

“I love you, Karla,” I said when we were alone again. “I loved you the first second I saw you. I think…

— Gregory David Roberts

“But I couldn't respond. My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no…

— Gregory David Roberts

“The clue to everything a man should love and fear in her was there right from the start in the ironic smile…

— Gregory David Roberts

“It seemed impossible that a modern airport, full of prosperous and purposeful travellers, was only kilometres away from those crushed and cindered…

— Gregory David Roberts

“I know now what was happening to me, what was overwhelming me, what was about to consume and almost destroy me. Didier…

— Gregory David Roberts

There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that…

— Gregory David Roberts

The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they…

— Gregory David Roberts

“MEN WAGE WARS for profit and principle, but they fight them for land and women. Sooner or later, the other causes and…

— Gregory David Roberts