May Quotes by Tom Robbins

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

— Tom Robbins

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be…

— Tom Robbins

You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees…

— Tom Robbins

This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we…

— Tom Robbins

You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought…

— Tom Robbins

The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There…

— Tom Robbins

Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion,…

— Tom Robbins

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by…

— Tom Robbins

There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others.…

— Tom Robbins

But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into…

— Tom Robbins

A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called…

— Tom Robbins

As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will…

— 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

You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought…

— Tom Robbins

So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if…

— Tom Robbins

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points…

— Tom Robbins

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no…

— Tom Robbins

In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came…

— Tom Robbins

From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone…

— Tom Robbins

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the…

— 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

There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But…

— Tom Robbins