First King of Shannara Quotes

“We should not be less than what we are.”
― Terry Brooks, First King of Shannara

“Our problem is not one of ignorance; it is one of complacency. We are too quick to accept the life we know and not quick enough to embrace the life we only imagine. We think that events must proceed as we dictate, and that no other voice will ever have meaning but ours”
― Terry Brooks, First King of Shannara

“We grow as best we can under the circumstances given us. What good does it do to second-guess ourselves years after the fact? Better that we simply try to understand why we are as we are and then better ourselves by learning from that.”
― Terry Brooks , First King of Shannara

“Believe me, Kinson, the potensial for evil lodges deep in every man, myself included. We restrain it better, keep it buried deeper, but it lives within us.”
― Terry Brooks, First King of Shannara

“Truth comes from belief—remember that. Truth comes with recognition that it is universal and all-encompassing and plays no favorites. If you cannot accept it into your own life, you cannot force it into the lives of others. You must embrace it first, before you can employ it! You must make it your armor!”
― Terry Brooks, First King of Shannara

“It is not given to us already cast. It is given as a set of possibilities, and we must choose which of these we would make happen and then try to see it done.”
― Terry Brooks, First King of Shannara

“You asked me if I loved you. I do. I haven’t really thought about it in any deliberate way—I just always accepted it. I suppose I believed that you would always be there and so dismissed any further consideration as unnecessary. Why examine something that was so obvious? There seemed no need to do so. But I was wrong. I see that. I took you for granted without even realizing it. I thought that what we shared was sufficient as it was. I didn’t allow for change or doubts or complacency.”
― Terry Brooks, First King of Shannara

“We have our eyes and ears, and we learn more than you suspect. Our problem is not one of ignorance; it is one of complacency. We are too quick to accept the life we know and not quick enough to embrace the life we only imagine. We think that events must proceed as we dictate, and that no other voice will ever have meaning but ours.”
― Terry Brooks, First King of Shannara

“Are there reolls among them? Are there those who would betray you?”
― Terry Brooks, First King of Shannara

“the Races could succeed in their efforts to maintain peace only by strengthening their ties to one another, not by distancing themselves.”
― Terry Brooks, First King of Shannara

“Dar gândurile lui erau secătuite și sumbre și, în tăcerea ce le urmă, se pomeni față-n față cu spectrul rânjit al propriei disperări.”
― Terry Brooks, First King of Shannara

“Păzeau Nestemata ca pe lacătul propriilor cătușe, în așteptarea vremurilor când se va fi aflat o cheie care să le desferece.”
― Terry Brooks, First King of Shannara

“Îi lăsase să le înlănțuie de el cu propriile mâini, să se legene în iluzii de mărire și în lăcomie, să devină sclavi, dependenți de false speranțe și dorințe nebunești.”
― Terry Brooks, First King of Shannara