# Quote — Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

> "For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass."

- Author: [Tom Robbins](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins.md)
- Book: [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/fierce-invalids-home-from-hot-climates.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/fierce-invalids-home-from-hot-climates/for-most-people

## More from this book

> "And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?"

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/fierce-invalids-home-from-hot-climates/and-what-would.md)

> I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas story. And every time that child's purity is corrupted by society, that's the meaning of the Crucifixion story. Your man Jesus stands for that child, that pure spirit, and as its surrogate, he's being born and put to death again and again, over and over, every time we inhale and exhale, not just at the vernal equinox and on the twenty-fifth of December.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/fierce-invalids-home-from-hot-climates/ive-always-assumed.md)

> "In the end, we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too thick and too strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke. The soul is its punchline."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/fierce-invalids-home-from-hot-climates/in-the-end.md)