Top 70 Michael Robotham Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Love and pain are not the same. But sometimes it feels like they should be. Love is put to test everyday. Pain is not. Yet the two of them are inseparable because true love cannot bear separation.”

— Michael Robotham

2. “Today was not ours, but there’s always tomorrow.”

— Michael Robotham

3. “Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.”

— Michael Robotham

4. “People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.”

— Michael Robotham

5. “People talk about there being sliding doors or forks in the road when lives take a different course. Sometimes it’s only later, in retrospect, that we recognize we even had a choice.”

— Michael Robotham

6. “You know its going to be a bad day when you are having a prostate examination and you feel both of your doctor’s hands on your shoulders!”

— Michael Robotham

7. “Justice and fairness are like rain that falls more heavily on some people than others. People with umbrellas tend to stay dry. People on high ground avoid the flood. Rich people. Connected people.”

— Michael Robotham

8. “He once told me that being politically correct was like pretending you could pick up a dog turd by the clean end.”

— Michael Robotham

9. “So when you start getting scared, remember that the longest night is only eight hours and the longest hour is only sixty minutes. Dawn is always going to come – unless you don’t want it to.”

— Michael Robotham

10. “Michael Leunig cartoon showing a tiny sad-eyed man with a noose around his neck. The rope was curled over a beam with a large bucket tied to the other end. As the man cried, his tears filled the bucket and lifted him higher and higher off the ground. Evie is that figure, standing on her tiptoes, filling a bucket with.”

— Michael Robotham

11. “Some parents expect too much of their children and others expect too little. Both can be equally damaging.”

— Michael Robotham

12. “Life is short. Love is vast. Live like there’s no tomorrow.”

— Michael Robotham

13. “If I become the man you want, I wouldn’t be the man I am.”

— Michael Robotham

14. “If I gave up sarcasm that would leave interpretive dance as my only way of communicating.”

— Michael Robotham

15. “To misquote Mark Twain: It isn’t what we don’t know that gets us into trouble. It’s what we know for sure that just isn’t so.”

— Michael Robotham

16. “The elephant in the room. It can’t be talked about. It can’t be ignored.”

— Michael Robotham

17. “That’s the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That’s life.”

— Michael Robotham

18. “We need the darkness to appreciate the light, and the bumps along the road to stop us falling asleep at the wheel.”

— Michael Robotham

19. “I feel sorry for hookers these days – how do they stand out anymore?”

— Michael Robotham

20. “How dare I complain. I was born in the right time and right place to the right family. I met a man and we built a life together. Yet sometimes even the most charmed existence can change in the blink of an eye, or turn on the length of an eyelash. One moment of indecision. A cancer cell. A rogue gene. A wrong turn. A red light. A drunk driver. A cruel piece of misfortune.”

— Michael Robotham

21. “Her eyes brown in places that brown could only dream of reaching.”

— Michael Robotham

22. “The worst hour of your life is only sixty minutes long.”

— Michael Robotham

23. “There is a moment when all hope disappears, all pride is gone, all expectations, all faith, all desire.”

— Michael Robotham

24. “To their west a jungle of clouds has swallowed the sun before it dips below the horizon. It’s like watching a flame burn through a soggy piece of newspaper.”

— Michael Robotham

25. “Specialists debated whether to pull the plug, but Texas only executes people on death row, not when they’re brain-dead, because it might mean culling most of their politicians.”

— Michael Robotham

26. “The planet turns. Time passes. We move forward even when we’re standing still.”

— Michael Robotham

27. “I’m so short I tread water in the kiddie pool. I need a ladder to get to the bottom bunk. I hit my head on the ground when I sneeze. I need a running start to reach the toilet. And no, I’m not related to Tom Cruise.”

— Michael Robotham

28. “Audie was the cleverest man Moss had ever met. He was Yoda. He was Gandalf. He was Morpheus. Now he’d become a walking suicide note.”

— Michael Robotham

29. “My love for a child will be greater than my love for an adult because it is a singular love that isn’t based on physical attraction, or shared experiences, or the pleasures of intimacy, or time together. It is unconditional, immeasurable, unshakeable.”

— Michael Robotham

30. “Here you can shoot the bad guys,′ a mercenary says in Baghdad. ‘In America we give them corporate bonuses.”

— Michael Robotham

31. “She says I should reach out and build bridges, but I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it’s a shame some people can’t be on them when it happens.”

— Michael Robotham

32. “Resentment is like swallowing a poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

— Michael Robotham

33. “Love was an accident waiting to happen, he decided. It was like throwing a parachute out of a plane and jumping after it, convinced that you could catch it on the way down. He was falling but it didn’t feel like a death plummet.”

— Michael Robotham

34. “I know I should have ignored her. I should have called. Many times I almost did. I got as far as picking up the phone. Sometimes I even dialed your parents’ number but then I wondered what I’d say to you. We had left it too long. How would we ever get around the silence, which was like an elephant sitting in the room?”

— Michael Robotham

35. “The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde.”

— Michael Robotham

36. “Closing his eyes, he feels the weight of the angel as she straddles his thighs. She leans forward, her breath on his cheek, her lips close to his ear, whispering, ‘Remember your promise.”

— Michael Robotham

37. “The value of a secret depends upon whom you’re trying to keep it from.”

— Michael Robotham

38. “She looked over a shoulder, a gesture he would never get over, a moment fixed in his mind – the perfection of her skin, the music in her laughter; her eyes brown in places that brown could only dream of reaching. And he knew at that precise moment that he would always yearn for Belita, whether they spent their lives together or if they parted that evening and he never saw her again.”

— Michael Robotham

39. “It’s showing Fox News – fair and balanced for those who like falling over.”

— Michael Robotham

40. “Do you know that if you close your eyes really tightly, so you can see stars, when you open them again it’s a brand new world.”

— Michael Robotham

41. “We get given our faces, thinks Audie, but we inherit our lives, our happiness and our unhappiness. Some get a lot, some get a little. Some savor every morsel and suck the marrow out of every bone. We take pleasure in the sound of rain, the smell of cut grass, the smiles of strangers, the feeling of dawn on a hot day. We learn things and realize we can never know more than we don’t know. We catch love like a cold and cling to it like wreckage in a storm.”

— Michael Robotham

42. “Some lids are best kept closed, glued, nailed, screwed down and buried under six feet of earth.”

— Michael Robotham

43. “Convicts are experts at killing time because they age in dog years.”

— Michael Robotham

44. “You ever considered the possibility that you might be an alcoholic?” “Nope. Alcoholics go to meetings,” he replies. “I don’t go to meetings.”

— Michael Robotham

45. “For a moment something struggles inside her. Then her mind empties and she surrenders. Fighting fate is too difficult. She must save herself to fight whatever fate throws up.”

— Michael Robotham

46. “Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn’t change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.”

— Michael Robotham

47. “People, not places, make a life whole.”

— Michael Robotham

48. “I don’t know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been – how much happier – if you’d been a part of it. One day.”

— Michael Robotham

49. “I know the answer now, but I’m so frightened I’ve forgotten the question.”

— Michael Robotham

50. “You’re scared of dying.’ ‘Better than being scared of living.”

— Michael Robotham