People Quotes by Tom Robbins

People are never perfect, but love can be.

— Tom Robbins

People of ze wurl, relax!

— Tom Robbins

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

— Tom Robbins

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

— Tom Robbins

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

— Tom Robbins

Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.

— Tom Robbins

As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People…

— Tom Robbins

Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like…

— Tom Robbins

Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork…

— 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

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

— Tom Robbins

There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group…

— Tom Robbins

there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world…

— Tom Robbins

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who…

— Tom Robbins

Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me…

— 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 bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way…

— Tom Robbins

The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody…

— Tom Robbins

what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so…

— Tom Robbins

we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man…

— Tom Robbins

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very…

— Tom Robbins

It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the…

— 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

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but…

— Tom Robbins

For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as…

— Tom Robbins

Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of…

— Tom Robbins

“Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was…

— Tom Robbins

I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good…

— Tom Robbins

According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one…

— Tom Robbins

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people…

— Tom Robbins

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

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

— Tom Robbins

If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing…

— Tom Robbins

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

— Tom Robbins

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really…

— Tom Robbins

There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.

— Tom Robbins

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the…

— Tom Robbins

I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative…

— Tom Robbins

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

— Tom Robbins