Gregory David Roberts Quotes

“If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.”

“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn”

“I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.”

“Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.”

“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”

“They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.”

“There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.”

“It doesnt always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world.”

“Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.”

“We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.”

“If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.”

“every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.”

“Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.”

“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”

“Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.”

“The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.”

“Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting”

“Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.”

“You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.”

“nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.”

“A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.”

“There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.”

“The truth is a bully we all pretend to like”

“Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around”

“Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.”

“A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.”

“A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.”

“Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.”

“The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.”

“At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.”

“Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business”

“Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child”

“She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.”

“Powerful people have no regrets.”

“Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.”

“Sometimes you have to lose to win”

“There's no such thing as forever.”

“A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water”

“The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.

- Karla”

“when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.”

“The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on.”

“Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.”

“There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.”

“The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”

“People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.”

“Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you..”

“Ask people for help. You’ll be all right. Don’t worry. It’s a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun…”

“The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.”

“A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.”

“The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love”

“hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words”

“I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live. – G. D. Roberts, Shantaram.”

“Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.”

“Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.”

“It's isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.”

“If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.”