Top 500 Tom Robbins Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.”

— Tom Robbins

52. “Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.”

— Tom Robbins

53. “People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that’s probably what makes ’em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.”

— Tom Robbins

54. “Kissing is man’s greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss.”

— Tom Robbins

55. “Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.”

— Tom Robbins

56. “The only question is how to make love stay.”

— Tom Robbins

57. “I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.”

— Tom Robbins

58. “Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.”

— Tom Robbins

59. “Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.”

— Tom Robbins

60. “The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.”

— Tom Robbins

61. “Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don’t be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.”

— Tom Robbins

62. “And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?”

— Tom Robbins

63. “Love is dope, not chicken soup.”

— Tom Robbins

64. “The Earth is God’s pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.”

— Tom Robbins

65. “Love is the ultimate outlaw.”

— Tom Robbins

66. “Live the beauty or your own reality.”

— Tom Robbins

67. “I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.”

— Tom Robbins

68. “In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.”

— Tom Robbins

69. “In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.”

— Tom Robbins

70. “As a child, I was an imaginary playmate.”

— Tom Robbins

71. “It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful...”

— Tom Robbins

72. “Reality whistles a different tune underwater.”

— Tom Robbins

73. “Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.”

— Tom Robbins

74. “Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we’ll have nothing to hide.”

— Tom Robbins

75. “The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.”

— Tom Robbins

76. “This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper.”

— Tom Robbins

77. “Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.”

— Tom Robbins

78. “Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.”

— Tom Robbins

79. “Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It’s up to each individual which one he chooses.”

— Tom Robbins

80. “Success can eliminate as many options as failure.”

— Tom Robbins

81. “Life is hard if you think it’s hard.”

— Tom Robbins

82. “The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.”

— Tom Robbins

83. “Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.”

— Tom Robbins

84. “Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.”

— Tom Robbins

85. “Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.”

— Tom Robbins

86. “Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is – and still not caring.”

— Tom Robbins

87. “If you’re honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you’re forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.”

— Tom Robbins

88. “To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How’s that for a paradox?”

— Tom Robbins

89. “When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.”

— Tom Robbins

90. “Why procrastinate when you can precognitate?”

— Tom Robbins

91. “There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.”

— Tom Robbins

92. “Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it’s love and love alone that really matters.”

— Tom Robbins

93. “I sweet potato what I sweet potato.”

— Tom Robbins

94. “If complexity doesn’t beat you, paradox will.”

— Tom Robbins

95. “The most useful thing about art is it’s uselessness.”

— Tom Robbins

96. “Eighty percent of love is smell.”

— Tom Robbins

97. “We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we’ve forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That’s why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us.”

— Tom Robbins

98. “There is no such thing as a weird human being, It’s just that some people require more understanding than others.”

— Tom Robbins

99. “Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.”

— Tom Robbins

100. “I’ve sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees.”

— Tom Robbins