Top 38 Gregory David Roberts Quotes



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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

…един добър мъж е толкова силен, колкото е нужно на подходящата за него жена.

 

Ако съдбата не те разсмива, ти просто не схващаш шегата.

 

Фанатиците винаги имат един такъв раздърпан, опулен вид. Приличат на хора, които не мастурбират, но непрекъснато мислят за това.

 

Приятелството е и вид лекарство и пазарите за него понякога също са черни.

 

Человек, который никуда не спешит, никуда не попадает.

 

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

 

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don’t despise.

 

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there’s no water

 

If fate doesn’t make you laugh, then you just don’t get the joke.

 

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey.

 

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

 

I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.

 

There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason.

 

I looked at the people, then, and I saw how busy they were – how much industry and energy described their lives.

 

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.

 

Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day.

 

…he’d been able to deal with that pain because he’d accepted his own part in causing it

 

Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they’d never happened.

 

Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them

 

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

 

And I’d learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

 

In the storm-lit darkness, the beaded sweat and raindrops on her arm were like so many glittering stars, and her skin was like a span of night sky.

 

Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they’d never happened.

 

It’s such a huge arrogance to love someone, and there’s too much of it around. There’s too much love in this world. Sometimes I think that’s what heavens is– a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.

 

Love survives in us precisely because it isn’t wise.

 

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.

 

This is not India. There are people here from every part of India, but Bombay isn’t India. Bombay is an own-world, a world in itself. The real India is out there.

 

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

 

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

 

 

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