Robert Jordan > Quotes

“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.”
― Robert Jordan

“The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.”
― Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set

“Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon”
― Robert Jordan

“A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.”
― Robert Jordan

“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes”
― Robert Jordan, To the Blight

“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“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.”
― Robert Jordan

“The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.”
― Robert Jordan

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan

“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.”
― Robert Jordan

“Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.”
― Robert Jordan

“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.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Til shade is gone,
til water is gone
Into the shadow with teeth bared
Screaming defiance with the last breath
To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“The wheel weaves as the wheel wills”
― Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set #3

“Time to toss the dice”
― Robert Jordan

“Dance with her, and she will forgive much. Dance well, and she will forgive anything.”
― Robert Jordan

“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“Death is lighter than a feather, but Duty is heavier than a mountain.”
― Robert Jordan, To the Blight

“Bloody flaming ashes”
― Robert Jordan

“Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something.
lini is quoted by Nynaeve.”
― Robert Jordan

“Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!”
― Robert Jordan

“Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" -
That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.”
― Robert Jordan, The Gathering Storm

“But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. ”
― Robert Jordan

“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“Take what you want, and pay for it.”
― Robert Jordan

“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.”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long.”
― Robert Jordan

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

“the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses ”
― Robert Jordan

“Read and find out.”
― Robert Jordan

“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.”
― Robert Jordan

“Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

“Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

“You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again." ~ Nynaeve”
― Robert Jordan

“I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement”
― Robert Jordan, The Gathering Storm

“Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“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 above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”
― Robert Jordan, The Path of Daggers

“In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.”
― Robert Jordan, A Crown of Swords

“Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.”
― Robert Jordan

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

“Hammar moved to stand beside Galad, still groaning on the ground and trying to push himself up. The warder raised his voice to shout, “Who was the greatest blademaster of all time?’

From the throats of dozens of students came a massed bellow. “Jearom, Gaidin!”

“Yes!” Hammar shouted, turning to make sure all heard. “During his lifetime, Jearom fought over ten thousand times, in battle and single combat. He was defeated once. By a farmer with a quarterstaff! Remember that. Remember what you just saw.”

During his lifetime, the greatest blademaster fought over ten thousand times, in battle and single combat. He was defeated once. By a farmer with a quarterstaff! Remember that.
”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“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.”
― Robert Jordan

“We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos