83 Quotes by Robert James Waller

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

Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can’t blame him for never wanting to live without them again. – “The Bridges of Madison County”

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

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea.

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

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies...

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. Christ, we’re in love. As deeply, as profoundly, as it’s possible to be in love.

I don’t just take things as given, I try to make them into something that reflects my personal consciousness, my spirit.

The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there’s still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on.