Attributed No Source Quotes

“Never be afraid to launch yourself into the unknown.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Nothing I have ever done had the benefit of planning; it was more ignorance than risk.”
― Gordon Roddick

“My plans are, at best, vague and show little promise of becoming more definite for quite some time. Maybe I am making the greatest mistake of my life – I don’t know, but at least I must try.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Philosophy
Fat men run
With cake and bun.
I run thin,
Delights of sin.”
― Gordon Roddick

“What a riot of experience”
― Gordon Roddick, 1963

“It is going to swallow a lot of words to get this right!”
― Gordon Roddick

“I will not die
There are two of I
Two of eye
Astigmatic eye
Pragmatic I”
― Gordon Roddick

“Some things take their own time.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The university of life and meeting people are so important.”
― Gordon Roddick

“So, this journey I know will lead somewhere, but where? When to quit moaning and get on with it.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I wrote in the pursuit of nonsense. What is nonsense? Something that makes no sense, but surely everything makes sense since anything spoken springs from the brain. Within the brain, small though it be, I believe, or I am told, there lies a mechanism association of ideas, so really everything is an association of something which, being so, couldn't be nonsense. It must be 'sense' of some description, but it is in the wrong place.”
― Gordon Roddick

“What a riot of experiences through life. It is going to swallow a lot of words to get this right!”
― Gordon Roddick

“Time is beginning to push me around a little faster than previously.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The quality of a small boy showing his friends a dirty joke and explaining the brilliance lay not in the filth but in the subtlety.”
― Gordon Roddick

“One waits for the results of promises.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I may say I have restrained myself remarkably well to date.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The preacher did not say of ideals that they are only there because we cannot attain them. They are red hot and passionate and should have no reason, like the blind charge of the bull.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The dreariness of an ideal attained is to be tired of life; it is a life without trouble. Heap on me a dunghill of tongue-torn trouble till it fills my mouth and eyes and nose, till it fills up my throat and forces me to cough and vomit it out, and I rise laughing and crusted in trouble.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Consign perfection to the evil to whom it belongs. Why do people insist the devil has so much fun and God has so little? They are crazy with a fear of life and its real pleasures.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I write in the pursuit of nonsense. What the hell is it? I have caught the human disease – definitions.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Vile inhibitions, you sarcastic bastard, but only sarcastic in the face of truth.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The envious rabble chant escapism. Even as I write here, I know how much I must learn. I know how hard it will be to put my moral integrity back whole, not put back, but to build a moral integrity where none previously existed.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I am longing for bed to pull the monotony of the night into black unconsciousness.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Oh, the joys of an open-air crap in the countryside.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I am sick of inflated people with smart remarks, smart clothes, and everything geared to fear of not quite matching up to society’s requirements.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The reversal of all my dreams, I had thought that travelling would change my outlook or make me a little more tolerant, but no, it has accentuated all my original hates and fears.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Man’s greatest strength lies in his ability to stand alone in solitude.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1963

“The real test is for a man to live with himself for an extended period. Alone, there is no room for insincerity or pretensions; he must know what he is. It is then that the doubts arise. If he can live with himself without going mad, then he has achieved something.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1963

“A new leaf, a new day, a new place and ten thousand different possibilities – there is sadness at leaving new friends, but travelling is continually in this vein.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1963

“Travelling can sometimes get sickening, and I am doing it because I am frightened of doing anything else and failing.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1963