All Tom Robbins Quotes
- Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death. Death
- The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball. Ball
- We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality. Especially
- Live the beauty or your own reality. Beauty
- You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans. Anxiety
- Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it… All
- Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable. Archives
- Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends… Act
- What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was. Bathtub
- Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid. Eating
- Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness,… Aspect
- People are never perfect, but love can be. Inspirational
- The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and… All
- I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a… All
- It was autumn, the springtime of death. Rain spattered the rotting leaves, and a wild wind wailed. Death was singing in the shower. Death was… Afternoon
- My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously,… Actually Create
- Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others,… Alobar
- The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich.… Asshole
- At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land.… Birth
- The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt:… Accident
- He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated. Defeated
- Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. Absolute
- Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to… Behavior
- Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is… Action
- There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. Character