Robert jordan quotes

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.

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 way was forward, whatever lay at the end.

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.

Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. "Who are you?" Demandred whispered again. "No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it?" "I am just a man," Lan whispered. "That is all I have ever been.

Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule.

One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.

Take what you want, and pay for it.

Time to toss the dice

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

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

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

Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.

To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

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 strings of those who forced him.

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying

Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.

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

Thank you," the young mother said again. "Thank you." "The Black Tower protects," Logain heard himself say. "Always." "I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age," the woman promised, holding her son. "I would have him join you, if he has the talent." The talent. Not the curse. The talent.

Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

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.

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)

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.

The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

Any day you wake up, maybe you die.

If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.

When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while.

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.

Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.

Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara

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

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

But it was an ending.

Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.

The Light willing, we will see one another again," Rand said. He held out his hand to Perrin. "Watch out for Mat. I'm honestly not sure what he's going to do, but I have a feeling it will be highly dangerous for all involved." "Not like us," Perrin said, clasping Rand's forearm. "You and I, we're much better at keeping to the safe paths.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.

A man without trust is a man without life.

Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.

Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

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

A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.

If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

There are things worth fighting for.

Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

Better ten days of love than years of regretting.

Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.

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

A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.

When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.

I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement

May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.

Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.

You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.

The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.

hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.

You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. "I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather." Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat.

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

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

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

the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.

She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.

Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar, and wanted so badly to fly through the sky as the eagles did. The cub who hopped and jumped and leaped until he could leap higher than any other wolf, who never lost the cub's yearning to soar through the sky. [...] Something crashed into his head, and as he fell, he did not know if it was Hopper or himself who died.

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

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

There is some delight in ale and wine And some in girls with ankles fine But my delight, yes always mine Is to dance with Jak O’ the Shadows We will toss the dice however they fall And snuggle the girls be they short or tall Then follow Lord Mat whenever he calls To dance with Jak O’ the Shadows.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to roll the dice) - Matrim Cauthon

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.

Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.

A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.

Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.

Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. 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.

Never gamble without knowing a back way out.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care.

May Your Swords Stay Sharp!" - Lan Pendragon

Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?" "Pure poetry, Mat," Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe.

Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.

A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.

What can't be changed must be endured.

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. "There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain," Matrim Cauthon whispered. "Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.