Tom Robbins Quotes
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“Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.”
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“Why procrastinate when you can precognitate?”
— Tom Robbins
In the world according to the positivist, the inspiring thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're sunny side up. In the world according to the existentialist, the hopeless thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're scrambled.
— Tom Robbins
“Your petal from the salty rose”
— Tom Robbins
Besides, if I am truly immortal, I am my own grandchild, my own descendant, my own dynasty. I am not obliged to live on through what I pass down to others.
— Tom Robbins
“The dinosaurs died so that chat rooms may flourish”
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A sudden squawked command caused everyone within earshot to act for a split second as if they were shaking invisible martinis
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Logic only gives man what he needs," he stammered. "Magic gives him what he wants.
— Tom Robbins
People tend to take everything too seriously. Especially themselves.
— Tom Robbins
I'm always astonished when readers suggest that I must write my novels while high on pot or (God forbid!) LSD. Apparently, there are people who confuse the powers of imagination with the effects of intoxication. Not one word of my oeuvre, not one, has been written while in an artificially altered state. Unlike many authors, I don't even drink coffee when I write. No coffee, no cola, no cigarettes. There was a time when I smoked big Havana cigars while writing, not for the nicotine (I didn't inhale) but as an anchor, something to hold on to, I told myself, to keep from falling over the edge of the earth. Eventually, I began to wonder what it would be like to take that fall. So one day I threw out the cigars and just let go. Falling, I must say, has been exhilarating
though I may change my mind when I hit bottom.
— Tom Robbins
“THE SKY IS MORE IMPERSONAL than the sea.”
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“A writer needs a life of introspection.”
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The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.
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“I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.”
— Tom Robbins
Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.
— Tom Robbins
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.
— Tom Robbins
Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.'
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“Christianity ... is an Eastern religion.”
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There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.
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Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes time to stand still, lust kills time, which is not to say that it wastes it or whiles it aimlessly away but rather that it annihilates it, cancels it, extirpates it from continuum; preventing, while lasts, any lapse into the tense and shabby woes of temporal society, lust is the thousand-pound odometer needle on the dashboard of the absolute.
— Tom Robbins
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