Top 280 Robin Williams Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”

— Robin Williams

2. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”

— Robin Williams

3. “You're only given a little spark of madness. Don't lose it.”

— Robin Williams

4. “You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.”

— Robin Williams

5. “Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.”

— Robin Williams

6. “Don’t associate yourself with toxic people. It’s better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.”

— Robin Williams

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7. “Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.”

— Robin Williams

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8. “Make your life spectacular, I know I did.”

— Robin Williams

9. “If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”

— Robin Williams

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10. “There are no rules. Just follow your heart.”

— Robin Williams

11. “There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.”

— Robin Williams

12. “But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

— Robin Williams

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13. “Don’t mess with me, man, I’m a lawyer!”

— Robin Williams

14. “You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.”

— Robin Williams

15. “The things we fear the most have already happened to us.”

— Robin Williams

16. “You know what music is? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.”

— Robin Williams

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17. “Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you are making too much money.”

— Robin Williams

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18. “Kid, if You Need Booze or Drugs to Enjoy Your Life to the Fullest, You’re Doing It Wrong.”

— Robin Williams

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19. “Comedy is acting out optimism.”

— Robin Williams

20. “Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.”

— Robin Williams

21. “The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter.”

— Robin Williams

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22. “I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.”

— Robin Williams

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23. “If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”

— Robin Williams

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24. “But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.”

— Robin Williams

25. “Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.”

— Robin Williams

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26. “There’s a world out there. Open a window, and it’s there.”

— Robin Williams

27. “Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.”

— Robin Williams

28. “Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.”

— Robin Williams

29. “I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.”

— Robin Williams

30. “I’m history! No, I’m mythology! Nah, I don’t care what I am, I’m free!”

— Robin Williams

31. “If you’re that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.”

— Robin Williams

32. “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.”

— Robin Williams

33. “I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.”

— Robin Williams

34. “Avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys – to woo women – and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.”

— Robin Williams

35. “I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.”

— Robin Williams

36. “Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.”

— Robin Williams

37. “What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.”

— Robin Williams

38. “Good people end up in Hell because they can’t forgive themselves.”

— Robin Williams

39. “Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.”

— Robin Williams

40. “There’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.”

— Robin Williams

41. “Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. ‘I want it to be the way it was.’ But if you continue the way it was there will be no ‘is.’”

— Robin Williams

42. “Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.”

— Robin Williams

43. “The truth is, if anything, I’m probably addicted to laughter.”

— Robin Williams

44. “The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.’ She’s got a baseball bat and yelling, ‘You want a piece of me?’”

— Robin Williams

45. “What’s true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.”

— Robin Williams

46. “She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.”

— Robin Williams

47. “For a while you get mad, then you get over it.”

— Robin Williams

48. “We were romantics. We didn’t just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?”

— Robin Williams

49. “Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.”

— Robin Williams

50. “My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it’s mobile meditation.”

— Robin Williams