All Tom Robbins Quotes
- One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things… Ability
- A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes. Circle
- My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell… Alive
- Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night. Bad
- Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore. Anymore
- Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark Dark
- And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of… Ever Think
- Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of… Attach
- I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis. Extension
- The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our… Action
- 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 something other than… Adolescence
- Don't be outraged, be outrageous. Funny
- All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. All
- Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe… Ahead
- The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the… Accurately
- If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of… All
- On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden… Bag
- Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which… Afford
- There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume.… Acquire
- A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way… Any