Tom Robbins Quotes

"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Heroes)

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Love, Time, Waste)

"True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Disorder, Results, Stability)

"To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Being, Question)

"To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Thought)

"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Love, Being)

"The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Sky)

"When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing."
- Tom Robbins

"People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Imagination, People)

"In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Authority, Order)

"If little else, the brain is an educational toy."
- Tom Robbins

"If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: God, Country, Crime, Name, Public, Will)

"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Nothing)

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Humanity)

"Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Folly, Stars)

"Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Equality)

"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Business, Government, Soul, Force, Magic, Poor)

"There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Dying, Killing, Living, Nothing, Worth)