Robert James Waller quotes

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live. (Robert James Waller)

The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.

Robert James Waller

Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

Robert James Waller

I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.

Robert James Waller

Life is never easy for those who dream.

Robert James Waller

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

Robert James Waller

Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again.

Robert James Waller

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

Robert James Waller

The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.

Robert James Waller

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

Robert James Waller

First you must have the images, then come the words. (Robert James Waller)

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

Robert James Waller

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.

Robert James Waller

So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.

Robert James Waller

Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.

Robert James Waller

One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone.

Robert James Waller

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

Robert James Waller

Robert James Waller

Occupation: American Writer
Born: August 1, 1939
Died: March 10, 2017
Quotes count: 17

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