James Oliver Rigney Jr
Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is known best for his series The Wheel of Time which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel. (Robert Jordan Quotes)
“A beautiful battle is one you don’t have to fight”
Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams
“A brief interlude with tales of romance and adventure was much preferable to contemplating utter futility”
Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams
“A city without choras would seem bleak as wilderness.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“A clean wound heals quickest and pains shortest.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“A dreamwalker sought the dream; the dream did not seek her.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“A flower in a field of weeds was always a sight, but if you passed cultivated flower beds every day, none of them drew your notice.”
Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
“A man doesn’t choose to be an idiot, but he does choose to be loyal.”
Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
“A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“A man is more than one drive, one goal. No woman wants that in a man. It seems to me that men who spend time making something of themselves—rather than professing their devotion—are the ones who get somewhere. Both with women, and with life itself.”
Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight
“A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“A man needed all of his wits dealing with a woman. Too often even that was not enough.”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“A man who trusts everyone is a fool, Lews Therin said, and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools, if we live long enough.”
Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart
“A man without trust might as well be dead.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“A plan revealed is a plan doomed to fail.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“A secret spoken finds wings.”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“A thousand stories had painted cities in his mind, the great cities of kings and queens, of thrones and powers and legends, and Caemlyn fit into those mind-deep pictures and water fits into a jug.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“A useful maxim: two rarities combined call for close attention.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“A wise man tried to avoid battles he would not only lose, but look foolish losing.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“A woman would do a thing until you were sure she always would, then do something else just to fuddle you.”
Robert Jordan
A Crown of Swords
“A woman would kill you twice as fast as a man, and usually for half the reason!”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“A young man chases shadows and runs from moonlight, and in the end he stabs himself in the foot with his own spear.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf’s eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“Across the nations the stories spread like spiderweb laid upon spiderweb, and men and women planned the future, believing they knew truth. They planned, and the Pattern absorbed their plans, weaving toward the future foretold.”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai,” Androl said. “The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“All of you fare well, and may you shelter in the palm of the Creator’s hand.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“All things change. Until we wake, the dream drifts on the wind.”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“Also, I was beginning to tire of waiting for the lightning. If it was going to strike, let it strike.”
Robert Jordan
Warrior of the Altaii
“Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“Always plan ahead, Lini used to say, but worry too hard over next year, and you can trip over tomorrow.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“Always something new, always something I didn’t expect, and sometimes it isn’t horrible.” (Robert Jordan Quotes)
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“An enemy who comes once, will come again. Unless they are stopped.”
Robert Jordan
A Crown of Swords
“An honorable man protects whoever needs protecting, but children above all, and women above men.”
Robert Jordan
New Spring
“And it shall come to pass, in the days when the Dark Hunt rides, when the right hand falters and the left hand strays, that mankind shall come to the Crossroads of Twilight and all that is, all that was, and all that will be shall balance on the point of a sword, while the winds of the Shadow grow.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“And it was written that no hand but his should wield the Sword held in the Stone, but he did draw it out, like fire in his hand, and his glory did burn the world. Thus did it begin. Thus do we sing his Rebirth. Thus do we sing the beginning.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“And not the sort of thing you have imagination enough to think up.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“As far as he was concerned, a man who decided to rob and kill deserved what he got when he lost the game. He did not dwell on them, but neither did he jerk his eyes away if they fell on one of the robbers.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“As many roads down as up, and the roads down as slippery as the others.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“At the end of time, when the many become one, the last storm shall gather its angry winds to destroy a land already dying. And at its center, the blind man shall stand upon his own grave. There he shall see again, and weep for what has been wrought.”
Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
“Bars of sunlight cast through rents in the walls made motes of dust glitter where they yet hung in the air.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“Being a soldier is about keeping your terror in check.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“Being in charge isn’t always about telling people what to do. Sometimes, it’s about knowing when to step out of the way of people who know what they’re doing. – Tam al’Thor”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“Being in control wasn’t so much about the power you had, but the power you implied that you had.”
Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
“Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“Blood of our blood mixed with the old blood, raised by an ancient blood not ours.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“Bloody ashes, woman. This isn’t a metaphor for anything! It’s just boots.”
Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight
“But hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“But only a fool thought he knew what was in a woman’s head just because she had a smile on her face.”
Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams
“By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it came.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“Change what you can if it needs changing, but learn to live with what you can’t change.’ You’ll only get a sick stomach, otherwise”
Robert Jordan
New Spring
“Confidence was one key to victory. The other side believing you were confident was sometimes almost as good as actually being confident.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“Continuity provides stability, and stability brings prosperity”
Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams
“Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.”
Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart
“Dead silence filled the room. Five Whitecloaks stood in the middle of the floor, studiously being ignored by the folk at the tables.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“Do not cut off your ears because you do not like your earrings.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“Do not trouble, trouble till trouble troubles you.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“Do you remember when we took that tame sport called swords and learned to kill with it, as the old volumes said men once had?”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“Domon would learn; even when a woman needed help, if she did not want it, she made you pay for giving it.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“Faile was the only woman Perrin wanted, but sometimes he felt like a fish trying to understand a bird.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“Fools deserved whatever their foolishness brought.”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“Friends lightened many burdens, even those they did not know of.”
Robert Jordan
New Spring
“Great captains earned their reputation not just for laying brilliant plans, but for still being able to find victory after those plans began to fall apart.”
Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart
“He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“He could almost hear the growling chuckles stifled in their throats while they waited for him.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“He did not own her, and she did not own him. The act of his movement so that they faced the same direction meant far more to her than other gesture could.” (Robert Jordan Quotes)
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“He found what he’d hoped to see, the reason why she’d left so quickly. Just outsidee the tent, Lan held her tightly.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“He was as much a fool as any man or woman. He just had enough experience to recognize it. It took a few seasons before a man could put that together.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”
Robert Jordan
New Spring
“He would not have thought she was the sort to like dangerous men. That kind of woman was worth avoiding; they tended to find ways to make a man need to be dangerous”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?’ Rand Whispered. ‘The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.”
Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
“How do you know when a woman wants to kill you?” Rand mused. “When she knows your name?” Dobraine did not sound as if he were joking.”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“I could wish somebody wanted to talk about something besides the weather. Everyone complains about it.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“I don’t intend getting close enough to the fighting to need armor. A general who draws his sword has put aside his baton and become a common soldier.”
Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams
“I don’t know. They could put up a warning sign or something. Hello. Welcome to Hindstrap. We will murder you in the night and eat your bloody face if you stay past sunset. Try the pies. Martna Maily makes them fresh daily.”
Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
“I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement”
Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
“I figured that once you’ve decided to jump off a cliff, you might as well pick the highest one. Why accept the risk, if not for the greatest prize?”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“I kept telling them I didn’t know anything about it, but half of them seemed to think that I was lying, and the other half that I was hinting at something.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“I think the woman was born in Far Madding in a thunderstorm. She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did.”
Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart
“I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“I’ll not have you bleeding to death on me. That would be just like you, to die and leave me the work of burying you. You have no consideration.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“If a sword had memory, it might be grateful to the forge fire, but never fond of it.”
Robert Jordan
The Complete Wheel of Time
“If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“If the world is ending, a woman will want time to fix her hair. If the world’s ending, a woman will take time to tell a man something he’s done wrong.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“If we do violence to oppose evil, soon we would be no different from what we struggle against. It is with the strength of our belief that we fight the Shadow.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“If you ask the lion to protect from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“If you can’t hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“If you do not learn from your losses, you will be ruled by them.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“If you don’t know everything, you must go on with what you do know.”
Robert Jordan
A Crown of Swords
“If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“If you tried to solve every problem yourself, you ended by solving none.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.”
Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight
“If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.”
Robert Jordan
A Crown of Swords
“In war, you say a prayer for your dead and ride on, because there is always another fight over the next horizon.”
Robert Jordan
New Spring
“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. That’s enough for anyone to know.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“It is all right to hate them, Egwene. It is. They deserve it. But it isn’t all right to let them make you like they are.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“It is not reason to do what must be done. And even blasphemy can be tolerated for a cause.”
Robert Jordan
The Complete Wheel of Time
“It left a feeling of something not done.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“It looks a good plan to me. As good as any till the arrows start flying.”
Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams
“It often seemed strange that evil had left no outward mark.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“It seemed to Rand like years since there had not been firewood to split. But complaining would not keep the house warm, so he fetched the axe, propped up bow and quiver beside the chopping block, and got to work. Pine for a quick, hot flame, and oak for long burning.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“It was a simple truth; the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.”
Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart
“It was about a hero who insisted with every breath that he was anything but a hero.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“It was easier to be brave, he discovered, when someone needed your protection.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“It was hard to explain to students that there was a rule that trumped all of the others: Always trust your instincts.”
Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight
“It’s one of the things men are for, taking the blame. They usually deserve it, even if you don’t know exactly how.”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn’t mean it has to be bad.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“Killing was as easy as dying, so the Aiel said; any fool could do either.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“Lan shook his head slightly. “He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you’re dead.” Moiraine nodded. Surrender after you are dead.” (Robert Jordan Quotes)
Robert Jordan
The Complete Wheel of Time
“Leaving something unfinished was nearly as bad as messing up the details.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“Let others know you possessed a secret, and some would work to learn it; that was a fact of nature.”
Robert Jordan
New Spring
“Letting emotions go clouds judgment for a moment, but holding them in clouds it always.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“Life is a dream, and everyone wakes eventually.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“Life is a dream—that knows no shade.
Robert Jordan
Life is a dream—of pain and woe.
A dream from which—we pray to wake.
A dream from which—we wake and go.
Who would sleep—when the new dawn waits?
Who would sleep—when the sweet winds blow?
A dream must end—when the new day comes.
This dream from which—we wake and go.”
A Crown of Swords
“Life was a tempest, whether you were a milkmaid or a queen. The queens were simply better at projecting control in the middle of that storm.”
Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
“Light’s truth, if you got a woman to feed you on a regular basis, she was halfway won.”
Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams
“Logic is always applicable to the real world,” Miyasi said dismissively, “but only a novice would think the real world can be applied to logic. Ideals must be first principles. Not the mundane world.”
Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams
“Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they’re sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they’re well too soon, with the same result.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“Men always seemed to think violence could solve anything. If she had had a stout stick, she would have thumped all three of them about the shoulders until they saw reason.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“Men listened closer to calm tones than to the loudest shouts, so long as firmness and certainty accompanied the calm.”
Robert Jordan
New Spring
“Men teach cats curiosity, but cats keep sense for themselves.”
Robert Jordan
A Crown of Swords
“My name is Nynaeve ti al’Meara Mandragoran. The message I want sent is this. My husband rides from World’s End toward Tarwin’s Gap, toward Tarmon Gai’don. Will he ride alone?”
Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams
“Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“No woman with grit could give up when she had children”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“Nobody walks a difficult path without stumbling now and again. It didn’t break you when you fell. That’s the important part.”
Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight
“Nothing makes Semirhage weep. She gives tears to others, but she has none herself.”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“Nothing was more dangerous for the sanity of men than a woman with too much time on her hands.”
Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight
“Often you don’t know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“One day he was going to understand women. When he had the time to apply to it. He suspected a lifetime would not be enough, though.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“One more dance along the razor’s edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“Only a fool believed women less dangerous than men, but women often seemed to think men fools when it came to women.”
Robert Jordan
New Spring
“Only a fool thinks a lion or a woman can truly be tamed.”
Robert Jordan
A Crown of Swords
“Patience is a virtue that must be learned, but we must all be ready for the change of an instant.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“Peel the apple in your hand, girl, not the one on the tree, Lini’s thin voice seemed to whisper in her ear. Tears are for after; they just waste time before.”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“People did not respond to anger. They did not respond to demands. Silence and questions, these were far more effective.”
Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
“People had a way of folding what they saw into what they knew and what they wanted to believe.”
Robert Jordan
New Spring
“People never really changed, yet the world did, with disturbing regularity. You just had to live with it, or at least live through it. Now and then, with luck, you could affect the direction of the changes, but even if you stopped one, you only set another in motion.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“Prudence is for those who intend to live long lives.”
Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight
“Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“Respect is a thing earned and not demanded, Perrin Aybara.”
Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight
“Respond to demands with silence, respond to challenges with questions. It was amazing how it worked.”
Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
“Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“She saw some boulders she would have wagered had once been toes on a statue, though why anyone would make a statue that large with bare feet she could not imagine, and another time the way led through a forest of thick fluted stones among the trees, the weathered stumps of columns, many toppled and all long since mined almost to the ground for their stone by local farmers. A pleasant” (Robert Jordan Quotes)
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“She stood in one smooth motion, surprisingly pale where the sun not touch her, slender and hard-muscled, yet with roundnesses and softnesses that haunted his dreams.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“She was a soldier, a warrior in her way as much as I. This could have happened two hundred times these past twenty years. She knew it, and so did I. It was a good day to die.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“Siuan said that “stubborn” was a redundancy when it came to men.”
Robert Jordan
The Complete Wheel of Time
“Small things were important. Seconds were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man’s life.”
Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight
“So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.”
Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight
“Some can do things others cannot,” Nandera said, as if that was enough explanation.”
Robert Jordan
A Crown of Swords
“Some men would call it brash, foolhardy, suicidal. The world was rarely changed by men who were unwilling to try being at least one of the three.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“Some people thought scars a sign of toughness. It seemed to Perrin that fewer scars meant that you knew what you were doing.”
Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams
“Sometimes he thought women all belonged to a guild, the way craftsmen in cities did. Put a foot wrong with one, and the next ten you met knew of it, and disapproved.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“Sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you’re alive.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“Strangely, she still felt no fear. She thought if she survived this, she would never feel fear again.”
Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart
“Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses too long.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“That was the trouble with the best of men. They always thought they were doing the right thing.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“The Aelfinn are not evil, but they are so different from humanity they may as well be so. They are not to be trusted.” —Birgitte Silverbow”
Robert Jordan
The Complete Wheel of Time
“The bed was narrow, the woman’s elbows sharp and her feet icy despite thick blankets trapping the warmth of the small, tiled stove built in beneath the bed.”
Robert Jordan
New Spring
“The best of men are not much better than housebroken. But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“The blood of the Dragon Reborn on the rocks of Shayol Ghul will free mankind from the Shadow.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“The determination of a man set upon justice is a thing not lightly ignored.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“The difference between you and Cadsuane is that you actually care about me. She only cares about my place in her plans. She wants me to be part of the Final battle. You want me to live. For that, you have my thanks. Dream on my behalf, Nynaeve. Dream for things I no longer can.”
Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“The hammer could be either a weapon or a tool. Perrin had a choice, just as everyone who followed him had a choice. Hopper had a choice. The wolf had made that choice, risking more in defense of the Light than any human — save Perrin — would ever understand.”
Robert Jordan
The Complete Wheel of Time
“The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“The Light save me from men who think with the hair on their chests.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“The Light shine on you, and the Creator shelter you. The last embrace of the mother welcome you home.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“The male and female halves of the True Source were alike and unalike, attracting and repelling, fighting against each other even as they worked together to drive the Wheel of Time.”
Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart
“The mighty tell the lesser to dig in the mud and keep their own hands clean.”
Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams
“The more power a man held, the more likely he was to be an idiot with it.”
Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“The only people I ever met who were sensible all the time were so boring that watching them could put you to sleep.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.”
Robert Jordan
New Spring
“The pale sun sat above the trees to the east, but its light was crisply dark, as if mixed with shadow. It was an awkward morning, made for unpleasant thoughts.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“The past was a field of embers and ash, an old Saldaean proverb said, the remnants of the fire that was the present.”
Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
“The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“The pin was the smallest part of a pair of scissors, and the easiest made, but without it, the scissors cut no cloth.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“The seals that hold back night shall weaken, and in the heart of winter shall winter’s heart be born amid the wailing of lamentations and the gnashing of teeth, for winter’s heart shall ride a black horse, and the name of it is Death.”
Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart
“The stone that never falls will fall to announce his coming. Of the blood, but not raised by the blood, he will come from Rhuidean at dawn, and tie you together with bonds you cannot break. He will take you back, and he will destroy you.” (Robert Jordan Quotes)
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“The trick is not to satisfy everyone, but to leave everyone feeling they reached the best possible result.”
Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight
“The trumpets of war shall sound at his footsteps, the ravens feed at his voice, and he shall wear a crown of swords.”
Robert Jordan
A Crown of Swords
“The wheel of time turns and ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age tha gave it birth returns again. In the third age, an age of prophecy the world and time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under shadow.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”
Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart
“The woman never wanted much. Just her own way. Like just about every other woman he had ever known.”
Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams
“There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“There was a limit to how many insults a man could swallow in silence.”
Robert Jordan
New Spring
“There was nothing a woman would not tell you if you kissed her enough.”
Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart
“There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn’t ever made.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“They could put up a warning sign or something. Hello. Welcome to Hinderstap. We will murder you in the night and eat your bloody face if you stay past sunset. Try the pies. Martna Baily makes them fresh daily.”
Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
“They had a curious way of moving, in some manner blending a careful deliberateness with an almost childlike carefree joyfulness. They knew and liked who and what they were and where they were, and they seemed at peace with themselves and everything around them.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“They made Rand’s bile rise. Use what you must use, or let the Shadow cover the land.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“They want to own the world, but it seems you already own a people.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“They were all watching him, all waiting. Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. He made his decision.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“They’re too busy staring at one another to turn full attention on me.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“This meeting had only one real purpose, a simple and ancient ceremony of the Borderlands that had been recorded only seven times in all the years since the Breaking. A simple ceremony that would commit them beyond anything words could do, however strong.”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“This was not the first time she had squeezed meanings from his words that he never knew were in them.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“This wind, it was not the ending. There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“Till shade is gone, till water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“Traditions should not be maintained just because they were traditions. Strength was not strength if it had no purpose or direction.”
Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight
“Truth almost always did come out in the end, but by the end, truth was often so wrapped around with rumors and speculation and absolute lies that most people never did believe it.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“Usually when a woman was in the wrong, she could find so many things to blame on the nearest man that he wound up thinking maybe he really was at fault.”
Robert Jordan
A Crown of Swords
“Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men’s heads.” (Robert Jordan Quotes)
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That’s Aviendha. Don’t look at her crosswise, or she’ll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“We rode on the winds of the rising storm, we ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“We rode on the winds of the rising storm, we ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“What could not be changed must be endured.”
Robert Jordan
The Complete Wheel of Time
“What is real is not real. What is not real is real. Flesh is a dream, and dreams have flesh.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“What was irritating was that they sat there with their heads together as though he had ceased to exist. Neither looked around until he cleared his throat again, loud enough that he wondered whether he had strained something.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.”
Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
“When change comes, you can scream and try to force things to stay the same. But you’ll usually end up getting trampled. However, if you can direct the changes, they can serve you.”
Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight
“When men fought, they connected. You became brothers as you traded blows.”
Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
“When people decided you were better at trade than they, they not only grew jealous, they became stubborn and tried to demand ridiculous bargains. And sometimes you had no alternative save to accept.”
Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart
“When she drifted off, she was thinking of Ryne, strangely. A pity if he was afraid of her, now. A great pity if he turned out to be a Darkfriend. He was charming, and quite pretty, really. She did not mind a man wanting to see her unclothed, only his telling others about it.”
Robert Jordan
New Spring
“When the fishmongers are all buying at the same price, you can bet they were all drinking at the same inn last night.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.”
Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams
“When we Shienarans ride, every man knows who is next in line if the man in command falls. A chain unbroken right down to the last man left, even if he’s nothing but a horseholder. That way, you see, even if he is the last man, he is not just a straggler running and trying to stay alive. He has the command, and duty calls him to do what must be done. If I go to the last embrace of the mother, the duty is yours. You will find the Horn, and you will take it where it belongs. You will.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“When you ask questions, Lini used to say, then you have to hear the answers whether you want to or not.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“When you have a wolf by the ears, it’s as hard to let go as to hold on.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“When you knew you were going to hang, the only thing to do was grin at the noose.”
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
“When you were a hero, it was toss the dog a bone and shove him into a corner out of the way, unless it was promise the dog a bone and send him out to hunt again. The same for soldiers, for that matter.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“When you were secure with what you were, there was no cause to resent being shown your place.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“Where better for us to wait until the Wheel weaves us out in new lives than in the World of Dreams?”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
“Wildfire did not run through dry woods as fast as gossip ran through women.”
Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart
“Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“Women lied to get a man into bed, and they lied worse once they had him there.”
Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart
“Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.”
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
“Women were always happy for a chance to educate a boy when he was young; Mat thought they assumed they could educate him out of becoming a man if they tried hard enough.”
Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight
“You can ask or demand anything of me, but never to let you die without trying to save you. The day you die, I die.”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“You can never know everything,” Lan said quietly, “and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.”
Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart
“You can’t patch a hull when the whole boat’s burned.”
Robert Jordan
The Complete Wheel of Time
“You got further plucking the chicken in front of you than trying to start on one up a tree. Especially when the tree was in another country and there might not even be another chicken.”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“You hammered the iron that lay on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.”
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
“You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“You never could tell what a man would do when he was drunk, even if that man was your own self.”
Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight
“You never escape the traps you spin yourself.”
Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
“You read too much and understand too little.”
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
“You wish me to tell you all of my secrets? I am grateful, but I am not in love.”
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
“Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.”
Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart
“You’re not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?” Elayne asked. “I’m convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
“You’re welcome in my house when this is over. We’ll open a cask of Master al’Vere’s best brandy. We’ll remember those who fell, and we’ll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We’ll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.”
Robert Jordan
A Memory of Light
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