Tom Robbins Quotes

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

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

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Freedom is a small price to pay for survival.

I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

Security is the denial of life

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Security is for cadavers.

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.

Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart

Some people live. Some people die.