Robert Jordan Quotes

A man should never give promises in bed.

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

You must surrender before you can guide.

If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.

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

The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.

If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

You read too much and understand too little.

A pig painted gold is still a pig.

It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.

Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.

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

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

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!

It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.

When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.

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

Til shade is gone, til water is goneInto the shadow with teeth baredScreaming defiance with the last breathTo spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.

One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.

You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.

Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.

Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.

You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

Who knows a woman's heart? Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.

We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.

The only rules he wanted to remember were "never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars" and "never gamble without knowning a back way out

I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer.

I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.

If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they’ll land.

A man without trust might as well be dead.

Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.

To believe a thing is not to make it true.

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there, " he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.

Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.

You're bloody insane, Karede, " Mat said. "Unfortunately, so am I.

Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

Bloody ashes, woman. This isn't a metaphor for anything! It's just boots.

The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.

When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.-Robert Jordan(The eye of the world, Wheel of time)

Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.

Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain.

Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could begin learning which could be broken and when.