Tom Robbins Quotes

Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.

Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring.

Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees.

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

red hair is caused by sugar and lust.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole?

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night.

It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right

I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.

To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?

I'll bet I'm as old as you are." "I'm older than Sanskrit." "Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper." "I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers." "You win.

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

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.

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 of us will ever be free.

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

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 is the point of it?

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.

Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

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 by the manner in which one looks at them.