Raymond E. Feist > Quotes

“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Rise of a Merchant Prince

“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“The saddest part of a broken heart
Isn't the ending so much as the start
The tragedy starts from the very first spark
Losing your mind for the sake of your heart”
― Raymond E. Feist

“Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Krondor: The Betrayal

“The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.”
― Raymond E. Feist, The King's Buccaneer

“Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.”
― Raymond E. Feist

“The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Shards of a Broken Crown

“Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.”
― Raymond E. Feist

“The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Krondor: The Betrayal

“Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved.
Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician: Apprentice

“Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.”
― Raymond E. Feist, The King's Buccaneer

“Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.”
― Raymond E. Feist

“You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.”
― Raymond E. Feist, The King's Buccaneer

“Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician

“But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician: Master

“The first love is the difficult love.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician

“My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―”
― Raymond E. Feist, Prince of the Blood

“But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Prince of the Blood