Robert Jordan citations

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“Soon comes the day all shall be free. Even you, and even me. Soon comes the day all shall die. Surely you, but never I.”

“Only the dead could afford oblivion.”

“Nothing ever goes as you expect. Expect nothing, and you will not be surprised. Expect nothing. Hope for nothing. Nothing.”

“What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.”

“No man should have another man's voice in his head.”

“The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.”

“There was a price to be paid for any decision he made. There was a price for who he was. Other people paid it.”

“Let most men have a finger, and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan chief have a finger, and he will have the entire arm.”

“Dance well with a woman, and she’s halfway yours.”

“The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.”

“Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.”

“I thought I could build, I was wrong. We are not builders, not you, or I, or the other one. We are destroyers. Destroyers.”

“The boy was dead eager, which could soon lead to plain dead.”

“How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world. You can step down from a throne], and even if you behave like a farmer in a pigsty, some part in each of them will remember that you did descend from a throne. But if they see only a young man first, a country man, they will resent him stepping up to his throne later, whatever his right, whatever his power.”

“If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.”

“If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.”

“A fool puts a burr under the saddle before she rides.”

“No wine for me. Strange enough things happen when my head is clear. I want to know the difference.”

“The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.”

“The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you.”

“The fox often offers the duck its pond.”

“There are things worth fighting for.”

“Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.”

“Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.”

“It is better to guide people than try to hammer them into a line.”

“We all have our limits. And we set them further out than we have any right.”

“The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.”

“First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.”

“In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.”