Robert Jordan Quotes

I can't understand herwell son, you might as well try to understand the sun

A man can get killed in there.

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

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

And the Shadow fell upon the land, and the world was riven stone from stone. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the World. The...

Cauthon lives, Arganda said. And that's bloody amazing, considering that someone blew up his command post, set fire to his tenet, killed a bunch of his damane, and chased off his wife. Cauthon crawled...

Great diggings and foundations spread across what had been the Warders’ practice yard, tall wooden cranes and stacks of cut marble and granite. Masons and laborers swarmed over the workings like ants,...

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

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 strin...

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

The Last Battle was not hope. The Last Battle was death. But it was a place to be, a place to go.

Why didn't you guess this would happen? Elayne demanded.He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch.Light, Elayne said. You k...

Actually, I figured out how to lose bloody ages ago.-Mat

All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.

A pig painted gold is still a pig.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

Egwene remembered her pity for poor Meidani. No sister should be treated in such a way. Imprisonment was one thing. But beating a woman down, toying with her, hinting at the torture to come? It was in...