Robert Jordan Quotes

“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.”

Source: A Memory of Light

“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.”

Source: A Memory of Light

“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.”

Source: The Gathering Storm

Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising

Source: The Shadow Rising

“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.”

Source: The Eye of the World

“Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”

Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 October 1994)

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

Elyas Machera
Variant: Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.
Source: The Eye of the World (15 January 1990)

“We rode on the winds of the rising storm”

Old saying in Randland
(15 October 1994)

Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn

Footer to the last chapter.
Crossroads of Twilight (7 January 2003)
Source: The Dragon Reborn

Robert Jordan Quotes

“Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.”

“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.”

Misattributed

Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn

Source: The Dragon Reborn

“Whatever can be done, can be undone.”

Robert Jordan A Crown of Swords

Rand al'Thor
A Crown of Swords (15 May 1996)

“To lead is neither to push or pull.”

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

Leane Sharif
(15 October 1991)

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

Rand al'Thor
(15 September 1992)

“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.”

Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1993)
Source: The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set

“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.”

(15 January 1990)

Robert Jordan Winter's Heart

Lews Therin Telamon
(9 November 2000)
Source: Winter's Heart

“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.”

Thom Merrilin
(15 January 1990)
Source: To the Blight

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

Source: The Eye of the World

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

Source: The Gathering Storm

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

al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World

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

Thom Merrilin
(15 October 1994)
Source: Lord of Chaos

“The wheel weaves as the wheel wills”

Source: New Spring

Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising

Moiraine Damodred
The Shadow Rising (15 September 1992)
Variant: The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, and we are only the thread of the Pattern.
Source: The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set #3

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

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 November 1990)
Source: The Great Hunt

“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.”

Variant: Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.
Source: Lord of Chaos

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

Source: The Great Hunt

“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.”

Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 November 1990)

Robert Jordan A Crown of Swords

Source: A Crown of Swords

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

Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn

Aviendha
(15 October 1991)
Source: The Dragon Reborn

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

Robert Jordan book Crossroads of Twilight

Lews Therin Telamon
(7 January 2003)
Source: Crossroads of Twilight

“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.”

Source: A Memory of Light

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

Sorilea
(15 October 1994)
Source: Lord of Chaos

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

Source: The Gathering Storm

“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”

Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1994)

“Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.”

Source: The Eye of the World

Robert Jordan The Shadow Rising

A saying in Maule, Tear
The Shadow Rising (15 September 1992)

“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.”

Source: The Fires of Heaven

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

Source: The Eye of the World

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

--Mat Cauthon”

Source: The Fires of Heaven

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

Source: The Fires of Heaven

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

Source: (January 2004), Chapter 1: The Hook. p. 6

“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.”

Source: A Memory of Light

“Take what you want, and pay for it.”

Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1993)

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

Robert Jordan A Crown of Swords

Rand al'Thor
Source: A Crown of Swords (15 May 1996)

“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”

Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1991)

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

Source: A Memory of Light

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

Source: The Great Hunt

“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.”

Source: Lord of Chaos

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

Source: The Fires of Heaven

“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.”

Sebban Balwer
(15 October 1994)
Source: Lord of Chaos