“Difficulties illuminate existence, but they must be fresh and of high quality.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' that often seems to… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“If a person leads an ‘active’ life, as Wiggs had, if a person has goals, ideals, a cause to fight for, then… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Silence is a mirror. So faithful, and yet so unexpected, is the relection it can throw back at men that they will… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Those who shun the whimsy in life will experience rigormortis before death.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“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… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark, winter and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
