Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise. — 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
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
“Pan is right,” he thought. “Death can ruin a man's life even though he go on breathing.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Those who shun the whimsy in life will experience rigormortis before death.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Life isn't simple; it's overwhelmingly complex. The love of simplicity is an escapist drug, like alcohol.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“As long as there are fuses, no walls are safe. As long as every wall is threatened, the world can happen. Outlaws… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand… — 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
“the professor had refused surgery for the rupturing aorta that was wiping his personal equation off the blackboard of life. “It is… — 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
“It doesn't matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you're not both at the same… — 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
“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what… — 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
A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“A lot of life boils down to the question of whether a person is going to be able to realize his fantasies,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many… — 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
“At birth we are red-faced, round, intense, pure. The crimson fire of universal consciousness burns in us. Gradually, however, we are devoured… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in life is style. That is the style of one s existence the characteristic mode of one s… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In addition, Dr. Dannyboy has suggested a fifth element: positive thinking. Pointing out that their breathing, bathing, dining and screwing brought Alobar… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.” — 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
“There's just one thing in this life that's better than happiness and that's freedom. It's more important to be free than to… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Existence can be rearranged. A man can be many things. I am special and free. And the world is round round round.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Long as you’re not afraid, nobody can run your life for you. Remember that. Hell is being scared of things.” — 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
The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life. — 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
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
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
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
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins Copy Share
“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“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
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
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. — Tom Robbins Copy Share
