Tom Robbins Quotes

Before I was a Discordian, I took life much too seriously. When you take life too seriously you start to wonder what the point of it all is. When you wonder what the point is in life, you fall into a trap of thinking there is one. When you think there is a point, you finally realize there is no point. And what point is there in living like that? Nowadays I skip the search for a point and find, instead, the punch lines.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.

I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.

Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive

Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.

It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

All he said was, "Here, have your dinfast. Then we can start packing." "Dinfast," Nick repeated. "Dinner and breakfast!" Alan said triumphantly. "Like brunch." Nick subjected him to a long, judgemental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know.

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.

Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.

I do not think therefore I am a moustache

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.