Attempts must be made, even when there can be no hope. The alternative is despair.
Admonitions took over the ravaged playground of his mind.
Power is a dreadful thing, and that the knowledge of power dims the seeing of the wise.
When all hope was gone, they heeded the counsels of despair. Had they continued to strive, defying their doom, some unforseen wonder might have occurred. And if it did not, still their glory would hav...
There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.~Thomas Covenant
Soon Covenant was lost again; the complexities of the
So now you think the augury was misinterpreted. It said you had to go get someone. It didn’t say who that someone was.
It was the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.
Do not hurt where holding is enough; do not wound where hurting is enough; do not maim where wounding is enough; and kill not where maiming is enough; the greatest warrior is he who does not need to k...
But we will trust you nonetheless. You are bitter, and bitterness is a sign of concern. I trust that.
But he was dreaming. The way to endure a dream was to flow with it until it ended.
He felt as tired as if he had spent the whole night shouting at himself. While
For all contempt turns upon the contemptuous, as it must.
Everything that passes unattempted is impossible. At
There is no doom so black or deep that courage and clear sight may not find another truth beyond it.
Pacing back and forth now on the spur of his conflicting needs, Covenant growled, Baradakas said just about the same thing. By hell! You people terrify me. When I try to be responsible, you pressure m...
Mortal lives are not stones. They are not seas. For impermanence to judge itself by the standards of permanence is folly. Or it is arrogance. Life merely is what it is, neither more nor less. To deem...
For convenience, history is often viewed as a conflict between the instinct for order and the impulse toward chaos. Both are necessary: both are manifestations of the need to survive. Without order, n...
Another blast from Rivenrock shivered the air. It snatched Mhoram's head up, and he faced Covenant with tears streaming down his cheeks. It is as I have said, he breathed achingly. Madness is not the...