The Crippled God (2011)
Works
Toll the Hounds
Steven Erikson
House of Chains
Steven Erikson
Midnight Tides
Steven Erikson
Deadhouse Gates
Steven Erikson
Memories of Ice
Steven Erikson
The Crippled God
Steven Erikson
Dust of Dreams
Steven Erikson
Reaper's Gale
Steven Erikson
Steven Erikson:
136
quotes
5
likes
Famous Steven Erikson Quotes
The Bonehunters (2006)
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 9 (p. 263)
Source: The Bonehunters
Steven Erikson Quotes about the world
Prologue (p. 5)
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999)
Context: “Heed the lesson there, son.”
“What lesson?”
“Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don’t notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly.”
“I want to be a soldier. A hero.”
“You’ll grow out of it.”
Forge of Darkness (2013)
Steven Erikson: Trending quotes
Toll the Hounds (2008)
Context: When undeniable crime had been committed, justification was the act of a coward. And it was cowardice that permitted such crimes in the first place. No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.
“The lesson of history is that no one learns.”
Source: Deadhouse Gates
Steven Erikson Quotes
“Civilization after civilization, it is the same.”
Midnight Tides (2004)
Context: Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.
The Bonehunters (2006)
Context: So much had changed inside him. He was no believer in causes, not any more. Certainty was an illusion, a lie. Fanaticism was poison in the soul, and the first victim in its inexorable, ever-growing list was compassion. Who could speak of freedom, when one's soul was bound in chains?
Reaper's Gale (2007)
Context: For Hood's sake,' the foreigner muttered. 'What's wrong with words?'
'With words,' said Redmask, turning away, 'meanings change.'
'Well,' Anaster Toc said, following as Redmask made his way back to his army's camp, 'that is precisely the point. That's their value — their ability to adapt -'
'Grow corrupt, you mean. The Letheri are masters at corrupting words, their meanings. They call war peace, they call tyranny liberty. On which side of the shadow you stand decides a word's meaning. Words are the weapons used by those who see others with contempt. A contempt which only deepens when they see how those others are deceived and made into fools because they choose to believe. Because in their naivety they thought the meaning of a word was fixed, immune to abuse.
Midnight Tides (2004)
Context: Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.
Forge of Darkness (2013)
Context: It is the legacy of most intelligent beings to revel in slaughter for a time,' Haut replied. 'In this we play at being gods. In this, we lie to ourselves with delusions of omnipotence. There is but one measure to the wisdom of a people, and that is the staying hand. Fail in restraint and murder thrives in your eyes, and all your claims to civilization ring hollow.
“Sometimes, mortals did indeed forget. Sometimes, mortals needed … reminding.”
Toll the Hounds (2008)
Context: Sometimes, mortals did indeed forget. Sometimes, mortals needed... reminding.
“Honour cannot be hoarded. Integrity cannot adorn a room. There is no courage in gold.”
Forge of Darkness (2013)
Context: Wealth,' they said, 'is a false measure. Honour cannot be hoarded. Integrity cannot adorn a room. There is no courage in gold. Only fools build a fortress of wealth. Only fools would live in it and imagine themselves safe.
Midnight Tides (2004)
Context: "You leave me without hope," Brys said.
"I am sorry for that. Do not seek to find hope among your leaders. They are the repositories of poison. Their interest in you extends only so far as their ability to control you. For you, they seek duty and obedience, and they will ply you with the language of stirring faith. They seek followers, and woe to those who question, or voice challenge."
“Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.”
Source: House of Chains (2002)
“The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.”
House of Chains (2002)
“Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.”
Source: Deadhouse Gates
“He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.'
Gothos' Folly”
Source: The Crippled God
“Shake your fist all you want but dead is dead.”
Source: Gardens of the Moon
“Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.”
Source: Midnight Tides (2004)
Source: Midnight Tides
Source: Deadhouse Gates
“Words are like coin—it pays to hoard."
"Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said.”
Source: Gardens of the Moon
“Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.”
Source: The Bonehunters
“Courting is the art of growing like mould on the one you want.”
Source: The Crippled God
“Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself.”
House of Chains (2002)
Context: "There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself."
"With words."
“An army that waits is soon an army at war with itself.”
House of Chains (2002)
“He had nowhere to look for answers, and he was tired of asking questions.”
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 11 (p. 341)
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 10 (p. 325)
Forge of Darkness (2013)
