Tom Robbins Quotes

I have no issues with my identity.

It's easy to forget who you are.

I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'

I know what my identity is.

After a while, you reach a certain point to where you know what your talent is, you know what you're capable of, and you have to not care.

I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.

You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

In the end I'm the only one who knows me.

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help.