Zitate von Gregory David Roberts

„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

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

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„Wenn einen das Schicksal nicht zum Lachen bringt, dann hat man den Witz nicht kapiert.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„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“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„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.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„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.“

—  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

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

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„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.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„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.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

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

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

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

—  Gregory David Roberts

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

—  Gregory David Roberts

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

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„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.“

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

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

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

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

—  Gregory David Roberts, buch Shantaram

„There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.“

—  Gregory David Roberts