Crusader Quotes

“Because a man can only live with despair for so long before hope resurges.”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader

“A man could have everything he wanted and be truly happy, but if you take away only the smallest thing, he becomes angry, resentful, and his happiness rots like a deshfruit left in the midday sun.”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader

“Sometimes life is not about desire, or belief. Sometimes it's about crossing the void between big moments, about putting one foot before the other as you navigate in a blighted heart. The only thing I can do for now is to keep going, to hold to my duty of fighting the battles placed before me, seeing to the tasks appointed me. You want me to believe? You want me to hope? This is hardly the first time in my life that I've been hollowed out, not the first by far that I've lost hope. In those moments, I've learned to keep walking,to keep going, to hold not to hope, but to whatever I can. I won't be the same man I was before, but I won't be like this forever, either, I doubt. The thought that I would ... doesn't bear consideration.”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader

“You are faster than your fears. You need not outrun them when you can outfight them, conquer them, make them yours”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader

“You say you will follow me into death yet fear to tread in the rain. What am I to think of your level of conviction?”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader

“Is there really any good I can do when everything I do seems to come out wrong?”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader

“It only gets worse as you age, you know. The older you are, the more you see what you have to lose, and the more you fear what that loss might mean.”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader

“The mark of a man is his willingness to do things that he must do but doesn’t wish to.”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader

“No matter how much you think and dwell and wonder, no other outcome will make itself known but what has happened.”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader

“I have long said that things past are best left there. They are done, why give them new life by speaking of them?”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader

“There are only three ways to best fear. The first is to care nothing for anything, including your own life. The second is to confront it and thus build courage by facing your demons. The final is to believe so deeply in some cause that you are willing to walk through any fire, no matter how scorching, because of that belief.”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader

“Before I just mourned the loss of a friend. Now I get to watch my faith in others gradually disappear.”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader

“I read once that brevity is the key to wit,” Vaste said, his voice barely audible over the hoofbeats of the entire raiding party. “Perhaps you should talk less.”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader

“I believe that when you come to the moment when you believe all hope is gone,” Scuddar said, “you will be forced to reach down inside yourself, to touch whatever remains within you. I believe in that moment, General … you’ll find the embers of whatever is left. You’ll find what you truly believe in. And I think …” the desert man smiled, “… that whatever it is, our enemy will have cause to fear. Because a man can only live with despair for so long before hope resurges.”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader

“You think fearlessness is some strength? It is a lie; it is deception at its most base. A man who has nothing to live for can be fearless because he has nothing to lose.”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader

“love and logic are the poorest of bedfellows.”
― Robert J. Crane, Crusader