Tom Robbins Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• 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.

• Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Ocean, Men

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.62, Bantam

• Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about dreams,' she corrected you, 'you're referring to your pathetic bourgeoisie ambitions. Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Ambition, Talking

• You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn’t last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind.” That’s how it is with dreams,” said Priscilla. “They’re the perfect crime.

  Tom Robbins

  Beautiful, Dream, Real

• All dreams continue in the beyond.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.54, Bantam

• You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Art, Games

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.235, Bantam

• At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Land, Dry

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.376, Bantam

• Faites de beaux rêves, monsieur," she called as she put out the light. Switters had always loved that expression, "Make fine dreams." In contrast to the English, "Have sweet dreams," the French implied that the sleeper was not a passive spectator, a captive audience, but had some control over and must accept some responsiblity for his or her dreaming. Moreover, a "fine" dream had much wider connotations than a "sweet" one.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Sweet, Light

• We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Morning, Night

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.90, Bantam

• Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, True Dreams

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.96, Bantam

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