Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.

You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think. -Angela the Herbalist

Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.

As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us. - Oromis

If you wish to be happy, Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change

Death is part of who we are. It guidesus. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

Come, kiss me sweet, and then let us return to bed, for I am tired, and I would sleep.

No matter how careful we are, if we live long enough, eventually one of us will die. It is not a happy thought, but it is the truth. Such is the way of the world.

the flicker of a memoryis all we can cling tofor our cherished ghostsFrom "Cat Paws on a Windscreen

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

Even a hedge knight has his honor.

Even if it's your wedding, if you're a guy, it's boring.

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

My dad wears girls' clothes - it's so funny. Sometimes I see him and I'm like, 'Nice shirt!,' because it's from my closet.

Loving dogs is a question of anthropomorphism. We become attached to dogs because of the feelings we project on them.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

Washington, or as I like to call it, 68 square miles surrounded by reality.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.