Tom Robbins Quotes

I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.

Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there.

It's only life. We all get through it.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy.

Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips.

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

Life is not mean to be easy.

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.

People go through so much in life - financially, physically, mentally, and emotionally. So I don't look at the ups and downs as anything but a negligible area.

I don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.