Robert Jordan Quotes

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“The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.”

“Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.”

“It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.”

“As sure as peaches are poison.”

“You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.”

“You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.”

“As well you try to understand the sun, Perrin. It simply is, and it is not to be understood. You cannot live without it, but it exacts a price. So with women.”

“…but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.”

“Men believe the worst easily, and women believe it hides something still darker.”

“A man without trust might as well be dead.”

“If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.”

“We hear less, Davram Bashere, but perhaps sometimes we see more.”

“I would burn the world and use my soul for tinder to hear her laugh again.”

“The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.”

“A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.”

“There’s no point letting honey age too long before you eat it.”

“What could not be changed must be endured.”

“Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.”

“There is some delight in ale and wine
And some in girls with ankles fine
But my delight, yes always mine
Is to dance with Jak O’ the Shadows

We will toss the dice however they fall
And snuggle the girls be they short or tall
Then follow lord Mat whenever he calls
To dance with Jak O’ the Shadows.”

“To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.”

“It’s too late to change your mind after you’ve jumped off the cliff.”

“Never gamble without knowing a back way out.”

“Weep for what is lost forever.”

“You always had to pay the butcher.”

“Ravens and crows. Rats. Mists and clouds. Insects and corruption. Strange events and odd occurences. The ordinary twisted and strange. Wonders. The dead are beginning to walk and some see them. Others do not, but more and more, we all fear the night. These have been our days. They rain upon us beneath a dead sky, crushing us with their fury, until as one, we beg, "Let it begin."”

“Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.”

“I’m no lord. I’ve more respect for myself than that.”

“Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.”

“Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.”

“Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.”

“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.”

“When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.”

“Anger narrowed the vision and made for foolish choices.”

“It is better to be the hammer than the nail.”

“Better ten days of love than years of regretting.”

“The weak must be bold cautiously.”

“Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen… The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.”

“Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.”

“Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.”

“What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn?”

“The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.”

“You cannot tell a man he has the power to make the earth shake, then expect him to walk small.”

“The more tragic things get, the more I feel like laughing.”

“For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.”

“A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.”

“I always thought the stole weighed about as much as three good men. The Amyrlin has few easy decisions to make, and fewer where she can be sure. Do what you must, and pay the price if you’re wrong. Sometimes if you are right, too.”

“Death rides on my shoulder, death walks in my footsteps. I am death.”

“A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.”

“Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.”