Tom Robbins

It is more important to be free than to be happy. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#happiness #tom-robbins #freedom

Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#rudeness #death

All dreams continue in the beyond. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#thought-provoking #dreams

Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#new-orleans #love

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#inspirational #writing #inspirational

I'll bet I'm as old as you are." "I'm older than Sanskrit." "Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper." "I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers." "You win. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#humor

I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#limits #men #men

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#death #life #death

On the haunted staircase of life, art is the only step that doesn't creak. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#art

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#goals #rushing #death