Tom Robbins Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Relationship, Wedding

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

• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Marriage, Time

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

• The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Dream, Cheer

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 1984.

• 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

• Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Life, Abet

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

• So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Failure, Thinking

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

• Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Morning, Stars

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 2003.

• Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Wedding, Laughter

  Biography/Mini Bio, www.imdb.com.

• The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Unique, Function

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.161, Bantam

• In the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the Holy Grail.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Passion, Holy Grail

  Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.235, Bantam

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