Pani Jeziora Quotes

“But every dream, if dreamed too long, turns into a nightmare. And we awake from such dreams screaming.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Lady of the Lake

“when they’re about to hang you, ask for a glass of water. You never know what might happen before they bring it.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Lady of the Lake

“We won’t manage to do much more than we’re capable of,’ he said more quietly and more warmly. ‘But we shall all do our best to make sure it won’t be much less.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Lady of the Lake

“Nie damy rady zrobić dużo więcej, niż będziemy w stanie. Ale postarajmy się wszyscy, żeby to nie było dużo mniej”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“Destiny isn't the judgements of providence, isn't scrolls written by the hand of a demiurge, isn't fatalism. Destiny is hope. Being full of hope, believing that what is meant to happen will happen.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“I am very tired. I watched the death of my friends who followed me here to the end of the world. They came to rescue your daughter. Not even knowing her. Apart from Cahir, none of them even knew Ciri. But they came here to rescue her. For there was something in her that was decent and noble. And what happened? They found death. I consider that unjust. And if anyone wants to know, I don’t agree with it. Because a story where the decent ones die and the scoundrels live and carry on doing what they want is full of shit. I don’t have any more strength, Emperor.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“We were all just as brave,’ finished Julia Abatemarco. ‘Neither of the sides had the strength to be braver. But we … We managed to be brave for a minute longer.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Lady of the Lake

“Progress,’ he said finally, ‘is like a herd of pigs. That’s how you should look at progress, that’s how you should judge it. Like a herd of pigs trotting around a farmyard. Numerous benefits derive from the fact of that herd’s existence. There’s pork knuckle. There’s sausage, there’s fatback, there are trotters in aspic. In a word, there are benefits! There’s no point turning your nose up at the shit everywhere.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Lady of the Lake

“If the world is to be saved like that-' the Witcher lifted his head '-it would be better for it to perish”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“Dandelion spoke first; elaborately, fluently, colourfully and volubly, embellishing his tale with ornaments so beautiful and fanciful they almost obscured the fibs and confabulations. Then the Witcher spoke. He spoke the same truth, and spoke so dryly, boringly and flatly that Dandelion couldn’t bare it and kept butting in, for which the dwarves reprimanded him.
And then the story was over and a lengthy silence fell.
'To the archer Milva!' Zoltan Chivay cleared his throat, saluting with his cup. 'To the Nilfgaardian. To Regis the herbalist who entertained the travellers in his cottage with moonshine and mandrake. And to Angoulême, whom I never knew. May the earth lie lightly on them all. May they have in the beyond plenty of whatever they were short of on earth. And may their names live forever in songs and tales. Let’s drink to them.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“I'm not surprised at Yennefer,' he said as he walked. 'She is a woman and thus an evolutionary inferior creature, governed by hormonal chaos. But you, Geralt, are not only a man who is sensible by nature, but also a mutant, invulnerable to emotions.' He waved a hand. There was a boom and a flash. A lightning bolt bounced off the shield Yennefer had conjured up. 'In spite of your good sense—' Vilgefortz continued to talk, pouring fire from hand to hand '—in one matter you demonstrate astounding and foolish perseverance: you invariably desire to row upstream and piss into the wind. It had to end badly. Know that today, here, in Stygga Castle, you have pissed into a hurricane.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“Time is like the ancient Ouroboros. Time is fleeting moments, grains of sand passing through an hourglass. Time is the moments and events we so readily try to measure. But the ancient Ouroboros reminds us that in every moment, in every instant, in every event, is hidden the past, the present and the future. Eternity is hidden in every moment. Every departure is at once a return, every farewell is a greeting, every return is a parting. Everything is simultaneously a beginning and an end.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Lady of the Lake

“Women don't need money. I mean what for? They don't drink, they don't play dice, and they're bloody women themselves.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“Rzucanie pracy i dalekie chodzenie za potrzebą groziło utratą cennych przemyśleń, a na to żaden uczony pozwolić sobie nie mógł”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“You know what, Reynart,’ Geralt suddenly said. ‘I also prefer you as you are now. Talking normally. Back in October you were using infuriating, moronic mannerisms.’ ‘’Pon my word, Witcher, I’m a knight errant,’ chortled Reynart de Bois-Fresnes. ‘Have you forgotten? Knights always talk like morons.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Lady of the Lake

“The past, present and future lurk in every moment of time. Eternity is hidden in every moment of time. Do you understand?’ ‘No.’ ‘Never mind.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Lady of the Lake

“I can’t bear the pointlessness of what we’re doing. Because it is pointless. It’s one great, enormous pointless pit of pointlessness.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Lady of the Lake

“There are things in heaven and earth that even philosophers have never dreamed about.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Lady of the Lake

“I’m alive, she thought. So it’s not the end of the fight. The fight only end with death, everything else is just an interruption”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“- Кто это был, Геральт?
- Друг. Мне его будет недоставать.
- Он был человеком?
- Он был воплощением человечности.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“And a day will come, perhaps, when we shall stop believing at all that something is lurking in the darkness. We shall laugh at such fears. Call them childish. Be ashamed of them! But darkness will always, always exist. And there will always be Evil in the darkness, always be fangs and claws, death and blood in the darkness. And witchers will always be needed.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Lady of the Lake

“If it is written in the books of providence", the sorceress said after a while, “that Geralt will find Ciri, then it will happen. Regardless of whether the witcher sets off into the mountains or sits in Toussaint. Predestination overtakes humans. Not vice versa. Do you understand that? Do you understand, Mr. Regis Terzieff-Godefroy?"

"Better than you think, Miss Vigo.” The vampire turned the sausage link in his fingers. "However, you must excuse me, I do not accept that predestination is in some book, written by the hand of a great Demiurge, or the will of heaven, or the unalterable judgment of any providence. Rather, it is the result of many seemingly unconnected facts, events, and actions. I tend to agree with you that the predestination overtakes humans...and not only humans. However, I accept much less the view that it could not also be reversed. Because this view is a convenient fatalism. It is a paean to apathy and baseness on a feather bed and the charming warmth of a woman’s womb. In short, to live in a dream. Life, Miss Vigo may be a dream, may end in a dream ... But it's a dream that you must actively dream. Therefore, Miss Vigo, the road awaits us."

"Go ahead." Fringilla stood up, almost as violent as Milva had recently. "As you wish! Snow, cold, and predetermination await you on the passes. And the atonement that you so urgently seem to need. Go ahead! But the witcher is staying here. In Toussaint! With me!"

"I believe," the vampire replied calmly, "You are mistaken, Miss Vigo. The dream you dream with the witcher is, I confess with a bow, magical and beautiful. However, any dream that we dream for too long becomes a nightmare. And from it we awake with a scream.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“For whoever doesn’t overcome the cowardice inside themselves will die of fear to the end of their days. The”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Lady of the Lake

“No me desenvaines sin causa, no me envaines sin honor”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“Because a story where the decent ones die and the scoundrels live and carry on doing what they want is full of shit.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Lady of the Lake

“Evil has stopped being chaotic. It has stopped being a blind and impetuous force, against which a witcher, a mutant as murderous and chaotic as Evil itself, had to act. Today Evil acts according to rights–because it is entitled to. It acts according to peace treaties, because it was taken into consideration when the treaties were being written …”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Lady of the Lake

“Stories were made up and spun in the evenings in rooms smelling of melting lard and fried onions, village halls, smoky taverns, roadhouses, crofts, tar kilns, forest homesteads and border watchtowers. Tales were spun and told. About war. About heroism and chivalry. About friendship and hatred. About wickedness and betrayal. About faithful and genuine love, about the love that always triumphs. About the crimes and punishments that always befall criminals. About justice that is always just.
About truth, which always rises to the surface like oil.
Tales were told; people rejoiced in them. Enjoyed the fairy-tale fictions. Because, indeed, all around, in real life, things happened entirely back to front.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“After all,' added Sheala, pouting her lips, 'it's befallen all of us at some time. Each of us, sitting here, has been cheated, taken advantage of, and made a laughing stock of by some man, at some time.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“Ty, kapcanie, gdybyś w zupie połknął karalucha, to w kiszkach więcej byś miał rozumu aniżeli w głowie.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“How does it happen, thought Ciri, what can it be ascribed to, that in all worlds, places and times, in all languages and dialects that one word always sounds comprehensible? And always similar?

"Yes. I must ride to my mamma. My mamma is waiting for me.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora