Robert Jordan Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.”

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”

“I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.
-Robert Jordan(The eye of the world, Wheel of time)”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its
foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.”

“Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced.
A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.”

“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”

“He doesn't know what to make of me," Mat said softly.
"How very uncommon. I can't think of anyone else who has reacted that way to you, Mat.”

“How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?" Rand whispered. "The anser 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.”

“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.”

“Listen sharp, think deep, and guard your tongue- Tam al'Thor”

“Men always say they didn't mean it that way. You would think they spoke a different language.”

“Let the dead rest, and care for the living.”

“We rode on the winds of the rising storm”

“Til shade is gone,
til 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.”

“Whatever can be done, can be undone.”

“To lead is neither to push or pull.”

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”

“The Creator made women to please the eye and trouble the mind.”

“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.”

“A man who trusts everyone is a fool, and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools, if we live long enough.”

“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.”

“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”

“I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement”

“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”

“Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.”

“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”

“The wheel weaves as the wheel wills”

“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”

“Time to toss the dice”

“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”

“Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.”

“Men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.”

“In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.”

“Death comes for us all. We can only choose how to face it when it comes.”

“Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.”

“He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.

-from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.”

“We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.”

“Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" -
That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.”

“Dance with her, and she will forgive much; dance well, and she will forgive anything.”

“Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene”

“Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.”

“Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.”

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”

“Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.”

“I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!

--Mat Cauthon”

“By the Creator at the moment of creation. May we shelter safe beneath the Light, in the Creator’s hand.”

“Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.”

“Bloody flaming ashes”

“Read and find out.”

“An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something.
lini is quoted by Nynaeve.”

“Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.”

“Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.”

“Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses too long.”

“Take what you want, and pay for it.”

“If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.”

“One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women mean trouble in the house. Three pretty women mean run for the hills.”

“By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning."
-Mat”

“Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.”

“A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.”

“Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.”

“What is too absurd to believe is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.”

“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.”