Tom Robbins Quotes

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

When you love someone, they have a piece of you, one of the most important pieces of you, and that's your heart. And when you decide to love freely and love hard - like I do myself - that's a risk that you're taking - getting hurt.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

Everything's a gamble, love most of all.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.

I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.

But Paulie gives all of herself away, and so to create a love like that and a person who would give themselves away was what I thought was going to be difficult. I was little scared of such a challenge.