Zitate von Gregory David Roberts

„Ein guter Mann ist so stark, wie er es für die richtige Frau sein muss.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„Wenn man einem Mann zeigt, wie nichtig seine Hoffnung und sein Hoffen war, tötet man den hellen bejahenden Teil in ihm, der geliebt werden möchte.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„Manchmal lieben wir nur mit der Hoffnung. Manchmal weinen wir mit allem ausser Tränen. Und am Ende bleiben nur: Liebe und ihre Pflicht, Trauer und ihre Wahrheit. Am Ende haben wir nichts anderes - nichts anderes, woran wir uns festhalten können, bis der Morgen dämmert.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

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

—  Gregory David Roberts

„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.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„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…“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„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.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

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

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

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

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„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.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„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.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

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

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

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

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„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.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

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

—  Gregory David Roberts

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

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

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

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„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.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

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

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram