Top 200 Gregory David Roberts Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.”

— Gregory David Roberts

2. “Never let anyone know what you’re thinking – always know what the other thinks of you.”

— Gregory David Roberts

3. “If fate doesn’t make you laugh, you just don’t get the joke.”

— Gregory David Roberts

4. “Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.”

— Gregory David Roberts

5. “There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.”

— Gregory David Roberts

6. “The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”

— Gregory David Roberts

7. “Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have – to hold on tight until the dawn.”

— Gregory David Roberts

8. “Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.”

— Gregory David Roberts

9. “Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”

— Gregory David Roberts

10. “Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.”

— Gregory David Roberts

11. “Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn’t something you get; it’s something you give.”

— Gregory David Roberts

12. “I take everything personally- that’s what being a person is all about.”

— Gregory David Roberts

13. “Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting.”

— Gregory David Roberts

14. “At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won’t stop loving them, even after they’re dead and gone.”

— Gregory David Roberts

15. “The truth is a bully we all pretend to like.”

— Gregory David Roberts

16. “Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.”

— Gregory David Roberts

17. “The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.”

— Gregory David Roberts

18. “The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. – Karla.”

— Gregory David Roberts

19. “Sometimes you have to surrender before you win.”

— Gregory David Roberts

20. “The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.”

— Gregory David Roberts

21. “Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.”

— Gregory David Roberts

22. “We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.”

— Gregory David Roberts

23. “If we can’t respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can’t use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.”

— Gregory David Roberts

24. “There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get – who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.”

— Gregory David Roberts

25. “Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him?’ ‘Yeah. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they’ll both drown, and the scorpion says that he’s a scorpion, and it’s his nature to sting.”

— Gregory David Roberts

26. “We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.”

— Gregory David Roberts

27. “If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it?”

— Gregory David Roberts

28. “I don’t know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.”

— Gregory David Roberts

29. “You know the difference between news and gossip, don’t you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.”

— Gregory David Roberts

30. “The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love.”

— Gregory David Roberts

31. “Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.”

— Gregory David Roberts

32. “Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.”

— Gregory David Roberts

33. “The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn’t do or say.”

— Gregory David Roberts

34. “Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.”

— Gregory David Roberts

35. “One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.”

— Gregory David Roberts

36. “Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”

— Gregory David Roberts

37. “Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.”

— Gregory David Roberts

38. “The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.”

— Gregory David Roberts

39. “A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.”

— Gregory David Roberts

40. “Silence is the tortured man’s revenge.”

— Gregory David Roberts

41. “For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.”

— Gregory David Roberts

42. “Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child.”

— Gregory David Roberts

43. “If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.”

— Gregory David Roberts

44. “Love is the opposite of power. That’s why we fear it so much.”

— Gregory David Roberts

45. “A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.”

— Gregory David Roberts

46. “A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there’s no water.”

— Gregory David Roberts

47. “Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.”

— Gregory David Roberts

48. “Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can’t defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.”

— Gregory David Roberts

49. “Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.”

— Gregory David Roberts

50. “A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you’re not a man.”

— Gregory David Roberts