13 Tom Robbins Quotes on Life

Tom Robbins quotes on life

11. Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning or an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of the bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm. There is only one serious question. And that question is: 'Who knows how to make love stay?'

33. Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

35. A rabbi's dog could score pork chops in the streets of Tel Aviv easier than Bernard could acquire tequila in King County Jail.

45. 'This is the way to burn,' the fuse seemed to be saying to the more docile, slow-witted candlewick. 'Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn.'

51. Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

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

71. A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised.

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

80. In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

84. Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines'.

88. There's no such thing as security in this life, sweetheart; and the sooner you accept that fact, the better off you'll be. The person who strives for security will never be free. The person who believes that she's found security will never reach paradise. What she mistakes for security is purgatory. You know what purgatory is, Gwendolyn? It's the waiting room, it's the lobby. Not only does she have the wrong libretto, she's stuck in the lobby where she can't see the show.

103. There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

105. 'In the end, we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too thick and too strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke. The soul is its punchline.'