Top 500 Tom Robbins Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.”

— Tom Robbins

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2. “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

— Tom Robbins

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3. “Our similarities bring us to a common ground; Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.”

— Tom Robbins

4. “The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can’t see the ball.”

— Tom Robbins

5. “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”

— Tom Robbins

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6. “If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.”

— Tom Robbins

7. “There’s birth, there’s death, and in between there’s maintenance.”

— Tom Robbins

8. “The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.”

— Tom Robbins

9. “Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.”

— Tom Robbins

10. “Redheads are said to be children of the moon, thwarted by the sun and addicted to sex and sugar.”

— Tom Robbins

11. “People of ze wurl, relax!”

— Tom Robbins

12. “Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.”

— Tom Robbins

13. “The trickster’s function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.”

— Tom Robbins

14. “To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.”

— Tom Robbins

15. “Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.”

— Tom Robbins

16. “All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.”

— Tom Robbins

17. “Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.”

— Tom Robbins

18. “The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.”

— Tom Robbins

19. “Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.”

— Tom Robbins

20. “Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.”

— Tom Robbins

21. “Don’t confuse symmetry with balance.”

— Tom Robbins

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22. “Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.”

— Tom Robbins

23. “There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”

— Tom Robbins

24. “Minds were made for blowing.”

— Tom Robbins

25. “You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.”

— Tom Robbins

26. “Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.”

— Tom Robbins

27. “We’re making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.”

— Tom Robbins

28. “Leave me in the night but please don’t leave me in the dark.”

— Tom Robbins

29. “You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can’t escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.”

— Tom Robbins

30. “It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes.”

— Tom Robbins

31. “O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate.”

— Tom Robbins

32. “The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.”

— Tom Robbins

33. “Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.”

— Tom Robbins

34. “You’ve heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well.”

— Tom Robbins

35. “All dreams continue in the beyond.”

— Tom Robbins

36. “Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.”

— Tom Robbins

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37. “The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.”

— Tom Robbins

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38. “There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”

— Tom Robbins

39. “There’s no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.”

— Tom Robbins

40. “Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.”

— Tom Robbins

41. “You are what you think you eat.”

— Tom Robbins

42. “Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.”

— Tom Robbins

43. “The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.”

— Tom Robbins

44. “In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn’t creak.”

— Tom Robbins

45. “We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”

— Tom Robbins

46. “Something has got to hold it together. I’m saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.”

— Tom Robbins

47. “Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.”

— Tom Robbins

48. “Don’t be outraged, be outrageous.”

— Tom Robbins

49. “People are never perfect, but love can be.”

— Tom Robbins

50. “Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.”

— Tom Robbins