Are you looking for a daily dose of humor? American comedian and actor Robin Williams has some of the best quotes that are not only funny, but also full of wisdom about love and life. Check them out!
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Top 10 Robin Williams Quotes
1. “Good people end up in Hell because they can’t forgive themselves.”
2. “I’m a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.” (More Funny Robin Williams Quotes)
3. “There are no rules. Just follow your heart.” (More Robin Williams Quotes on Happiness)
4. “There’s a world out there. Open a window, and it’s there.”
5. ‘I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.’ Robin Williams Share on X
6. “Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.” (Movie: Jack) (More Robin Williams Quotes on Life)
7. “Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
8. “Make your life spectacular. I know I did.”
9. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” Robin Williams Quote from his movie “Dead Poets Society”
10. “Smile boy. It’s the sunrise.” Robbie Williams’ last onscreen line from movie “Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb”
On Love
11. “Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
12. “Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it ‘all the money’ but they changed it to alimony.” Robin Williams Quote on Divorce
13. “You’re not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense. This girl you met, she isn’t perfect either. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other. That’s the whole deal. That’s what intimacy is all about.”
14. “But if there’s love, dear. those are the ties that bind, and you’ll have a family in your heart, forever.”
15. “Don’t associate yourself with toxic people. It’s better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.”
16. “I do believe in love; it’s wonderful – especially love third time around, it’s even more precious; it’s kind of amazing.”
17. 'Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.' Robin Williams Share on X
18. “I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.”
19. “My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.”
20. “I love kids, but they are a tough audience.”
21. “My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is”
22. “Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts.”
23. “Marriage is a triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
Robin Williams Quotes on Happiness
24. “You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
25. “I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anybody else to feel like that.”
26. “Regrets don’t help.”
27. “You know what music is? God’s little reminder that there’s something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.”
28. “Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.”
29. 'Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It’s called fun.' Robin Williams Share on X
30. “Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem you face it like a man.”
31. “Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.” (Robin Williams on Returning to TV, Getting Sober, and Downsizing in His 60s. Parade, 2013) https://parade.com/154817/dotsonrader/robin-williams-on-returning-to-tv-getting-sober-and-downsizing-in-his-60s/
32. “If heaven exists, to know that there’s laughs, that would be a great thing.”
33. “People think they know you. They expect you to be literally like you are on TV or in the movies, bouncing off the walls. A woman in an airport once said to me, “Be zany!” People always want zany, goofy sh-t from me. It takes a lot of energy to do that. If you do that all the time, you’ll burn out.”
34. “And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky, when the stars are strung across the velvety night, and when shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day, make a wish. Think of me. Make your life spectacular. I know I did.”
Robin Williams Quotes On Life
35. “There is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful.” (Click Here for More Quotes on Fear of Failure)
36. “I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.”
37. “Never say goodbye because saying goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting.”
38. “I had sex with a prostitute when I was 21, I was so bad, she gave me a refund.”
39. 'Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing.' Robin Williams Share on X
40. “Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end none of us have very long on this earth. Life is fleeting. And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky.”
41. “A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.”
42. “When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.”
43. “On stage you’re free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you’d be arrested.”
44. “You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.” Quote from movie “Good Will Hunting”
45. “What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.”
46. “The idea of having a steady job is appealing.”
47. “You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.”
48. “But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.” Robin Williams Quote on Freedom
49. “To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.”
50. “Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.”
51. “Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.”
52. “Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. “I want it to be the way it was.” But if you continue the way it was there will be no “is.” Robin Williams Quote on Changes in Life
53. 'The things we fear the most have already happened to us.' Robin Williams Share on X
54. “Reality… what a concept.”
55. “I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.”
56. “Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. . . Once you step on stage you’re licensed to do that. It’s an understood relationship. You walk on stage, it’s your job. Then it’s a question of what can you get away with.”
57. “The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and that is what needs to be nourished, with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.”
58. “…That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”
Funny Quotes on Laughter
59. “If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.” Robin Williams Quote on Women
60. “Do you think God gets stoned? I think so … look at the platypus.” Robin Williams Quote on God
61. “Ah, yes, divorce… from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.” Robin Williams Quote on Divorce
62. “Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it ‘all the money’ but they changed it to alimony.” Robin Williams Quote on Divorce
63. 'Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?' Robin Williams Share on X
64. “Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying, ‘I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award.’ The other is, ‘You want fries with that?'” Robin Williams Quote on raising children
65. “Cricket is basically baseball on valium.”
66. “In England, if you commit a crime, the police don’t have a gun and you don’t have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say “Stop, or I’ll say stop again.”
67. “When I was growing up they used to say, “Robin, drugs can kill you.” Now that I’m 58 my doctor’s telling me, “Robin, you need drugs to live.” I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer…”
68. 'You’re still young. Being a true loser takes years of inaptitude.' Robin Williams Share on X
69. “Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.”
70. “Robin, you need drugs to live. I realise now that my doctor is also a dealer…”
71. “As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”
72. “What’s my credibility? Why are they looking to me for advice? Isn’t there someone more qualified?”
73. “There’s three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer.”
74. “Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.”
75. “You know, you get that tattoo of barbed wire when you’re 18, but by the time you’re 80, it’s a picket fence.” (More Quotes on Aging )
76. “People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and living in the White House.”
77. “Inside of you, there’s a fashion model just waiting to throw up.”
Inspiring Quotes by Robin Williams
78. “The world is your oyster. Never stop trying new things.”
79. “Stop being afraid of getting older. With age comes wisdom and confidence.” (More Quotes on Aging Gracefully)
80. “Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.”
81. “What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.”
82. “I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.”
83. “Time is the best teacher, unfortunately, it kills all of its students.”
84. “Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table is ready’.” Robin Williams Quote on Death
85. 'For me, right now, the greatest thing is to take a moment and just breathe.' Robin Williams Share on X
86. “What’s wrong with death, sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can’t we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy, gentlemen. If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
87. “I have not thought about it, but when I die, just dance on my grave and water the plants with what you are drinking. Please do not clone me, because after a while your clone is not as bright as you are.”
88. “You must strive to find your own voice because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.”
89. “Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.”
90. “Taking it down just a little bit and traveling at the speed of life is a much easier journey.”
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