Tom Robbins Quotes About Hell

Quotes about: Hell

• Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Greed, Humanity

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

• When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Fall, Hard Work

• Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.

  Tom Robbins

  Home, Fire, Volcanoes

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

• My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?

  Tom Robbins

  Feel Good, Alive, Hell

  "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, 2000.

• Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses.

  Tom Robbins

  Heaven, Hell, Individual

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.143, Bantam

• To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

  Tom Robbins

  Afterlife, Heaven, Hell

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

• Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell.

  Tom Robbins

  Heaven, Batteries, Toys

• ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

  Tom Robbins

  Life, Religious, Horse

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

• Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.

  Tom Robbins

  Animal, Race, Purpose

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.186, Bantam

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