Gregory David Roberts: Trending quotes

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

“But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.”

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

“Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give”

“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.”

“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”

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

“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.”

“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.”

“I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.”

“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”