Tom Robbins Quotes

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.

When I was young and, supposedly so beautiful, I had a tsunami of men crashing in on me and some really, really nice guys wanted to marry me. But I only ever wanted to marry for love. And I did. And it worked... for the first 20 minutes.

Some people, they don't want to be that loved, they don't want to be that involved, they don't want to be part of your family. That's where the pain comes in. You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those who, even in the face of constant disappointment, continue to believe that the intensity of their desire will be rewarded by an eventual jackpot of affection. And if that’s the slot machine you’re playing, friend, you’d better leave the casino ‘cause that one don’t pay out

It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.

But I was waiting for some magical moment, that would prove to me, forever would be fine. Meanwhile, my first love was standing first in line.

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

If this was love, love had been overrated.

In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.

They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.

I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.

That was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love that does not exist. but darling, You are the only exception