Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.
Gregory David Roberts
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
Author
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Men
Wrong
Indifference
Love
Lives
Thrown
War
Mistakes
Hate
Died
Away
Whose
Else
Second
Someone
Mistake
Crunched
Around
Went
Survived
More quotes by Gregory David Roberts
So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.
Gregory David Roberts
The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love
Gregory David Roberts
It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\
Gregory David Roberts
The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.
Gregory David Roberts
A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water
Gregory David Roberts
Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.
Gregory David Roberts
They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.
Gregory David Roberts
And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.
Gregory David Roberts
The truth is a bully we all pretend to like
Gregory David Roberts
The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.
Gregory David Roberts
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
The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
Gregory David Roberts
Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.
Gregory David Roberts
Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.
Gregory David Roberts
There's no such thing as forever.
Gregory David Roberts
Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.
Gregory David Roberts
Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win.
Gregory David Roberts
Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.
Gregory David Roberts
The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.
Gregory David Roberts
It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.
Gregory David Roberts
