Top 100 Robert Jordan Quotes
#1. I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not.
-Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)
Robert Jordan
#2. Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.
Terri Windling
#3. Robert Jordan knew that now his papers were being examined by the man who could not read.
Ernest Hemingway,
#5. I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The Wheel of Time' and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did 'Game of Thrones.'
Kris Holden-Ried
#6. We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her.
Robert Jordan
#7. There was a limit to how many insults a man could swallow in silence.
Robert Jordan
#8. Never choose the card a man wants you to. Mat should have realized that. It was one of the oldest cons in creation.
Robert Jordan
#9. A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
Robert Jordan
#10. 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
#11. The Grave is no bar to my call."
"Let whosoever sounds me think not of glory, but only of salvation.
Robert Jordan
#12. I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!
Mat Cauthon
Robert Jordan
#13. You cannot escape so easily, Dragon. It is not done between us. It will not be done until the end of time.
Robert Jordan
#14. The trick is not to satisfy everyone, but to leave everyone feeling they reached the best possible result.
Robert Jordan
#15. Well perhaps you humans do have short lives but you do so much with them. Always jumping around, always so hasty and you have the whole world to do it in. - Loial
Robert Jordan
#16. He has forgotten how to laugh except in bitterness; there are no tears left in him. Unless he finds laughter and tears again, the world faces disaster. He
Robert Jordan
#17. A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.
Robert Jordan
#18. Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.
Robert Jordan
#19. 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
#20. If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.
Robert Jordan
#21. The only rules he wanted to remember were "never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars" and "never gamble without knowning a back way out
Robert Jordan
#22. You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.
Robert Jordan
#23. I do not like odd things until I can understand them.
Robert Jordan
#24. A pattern that is all one color is no pattern.
Robert Jordan
#26. The Seanchan fight the Shadow.
-message from Dragon Reborn to Egwene
Robert Jordan
#27. The seals that hold back night shall weaken, and in the heart of winter shall winter's heart be born amid the wailing of lamentations and the gnashing of teeth, for winter's heart shall ride a black horse, and the name of it is Death.
-from The Karaethon Cycle: The Prophecies of the Dragon
Robert Jordan
#28. The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.
Robert Jordan
#29. Who are you? What do you want?" The black-clad man drew himself up arrogantly. "Once I was called Elan Morin Tedronai, but now - " "Betrayer of Hope.
Robert Jordan
#30. The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.
Robert Jordan
#31. He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.
Robert Jordan
#32. What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.
Robert Jordan
#33. Blood and Bloody Ashes! - Mat in a Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan
#34. Truth almost always did come out in the end, but by the end, truth was often so wrapped around with rumors and speculation and absolute lies that most people never did believe it.
Robert Jordan
#35. 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
#36. It was a simple truth; the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.
Robert Jordan
#38. Stay and get married, or travel the Ways." Loial grimaced ruefully. "Life is very unsettling with ta'veren for friends.
Robert Jordan
#39. 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
#40. He said the Dark One intended to blind the Eye of the World, and slay the Great Serpent, kill time itself.
Robert Jordan
#41. Anyone but Aes Sedai would have gaped at her. As it was, Romanda very nearly spluttered.
Robert Jordan
#42. Anger made for hasty decisions and rash words that sometimes were hard to take back.
Robert Jordan
#43. You can ask or demand anything of me, but never to let you die without trying to save you. The day you die, I die.
Robert Jordan
#44. Lord Perrin. He would never get used to that, but maybe that was a good thing.
Robert Jordan
#45. Well, Mat thought, guess I can take that. For now.
Robert Jordan
#46. There was a difference between being proud of a grand fireplace in your hall and walking into the flames.
Robert Jordan
#49. The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.
Robert Jordan
#50. Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.
Robert Jordan
#51. My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.
Robert Jordan
#52. And for some reason, men and women who told the tale often found a need to add almost identical words. The storm is coming, they said, staring southward in worry. The storm is coming.
Robert Jordan
#53. Change what you can if it needs
changing, but learn to live with what you can't change.
Robert Jordan
#54. A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.
Robert Jordan
#55. Why do they use it like that? Peace." "When you have never known a thing except to dream," Lan replied, heeling Mandarb forward, "it becomes more than a talisman.
Robert Jordan
#56. When you undress for bed, let yourself dance as if life pleases you, then apologize when you suddenly realize she is there and put yourself straight into your blankets. Can you blush?" A
Robert Jordan
#57. Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.
Robert Jordan
#58. If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
Robert Jordan
#59. What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
Robert Jordan
#60. Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.
Robert Jordan
#61. Confidence was one key to victory. The other side believing you were confident was sometimes almost as good as actually being confident.
Robert Jordan
#62. I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
Robert Jordan
#63. Wildfire did not run through dry woods as fast as gossip ran through women.
Robert Jordan
#64. Wash the spears - Life is a dream. Wash the spears - All dreams must end.
Robert Jordan
#65. 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
#66. If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
Robert Jordan
#67. Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.
Robert Jordan
#68. The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.
Robert Jordan
#69. You stand up straw men," Nynaeve said. "We have a saying in the Two Rivers. 'Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.' Take your contest somewhere else and leave Emond's Field folk out of it.
Robert Jordan
#70. In my day, girls jumped when a Wise One said jump, and continued jumping until they were told to stop. As I am still alive, it is still my day. Need I make myself clearer? - Sorilea
Robert Jordan
#71. 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
#72. Death is light as a feather; duty, heavy as a mountain
Robert Jordan
#73. The determination of a man set upon justice is a thing not lightly ignored.
Robert Jordan
#74. In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.
Robert Jordan
#75. Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.
Robert Jordan
#76. Who would sup with the mighty must climb the path of daggers.
-Anonymous notation found inked in the margin of a manuscript history (believed to date to the time of Arthur Hawkwing) of the last days of the Tovan Conclaves
Robert Jordan
#77. I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.
Robert Jordan
#78. Domon would learn; even when a woman needed help, if she did not want it, she made you pay for giving it.
Robert Jordan
#79. Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.
Robert Jordan
#80. What I love, I destroy, Lews Therin laughed. What I destroy, I love.
Robert Jordan
#81. Lord Rand," Nynaeve snorted. "That young man is growing too big for his breeches. When I get my hand on him, I'll lord him.
Robert Jordan
#82. You never could tell what a man would do when he was drunk, even if that man was your own self.
Robert Jordan
#83. You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.
Robert Jordan
#84. How did you ever come to like a common blacksmith?"
"The word is 'love', Perrin Aybara.
Robert Jordan
#85. But trust is the color of a dark seed growing. Trust is the color of a heart's blood flowing. Trust is the color of a soul's last breath. Trust is the color of death.
Robert Jordan
#86. Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.
Robert Jordan
#87. By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning.
-Mat
Robert Jordan
#88. Keep fighting, you daughters and sons of goats!" Birgitte yelled, loosing arrows at the mercenaries. "I might be dead, but I'm still your bloody commander, and you will obey orders!
Robert Jordan
#89. The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.
Robert Jordan
#90. Thieves are always the most careful of their purses.
Robert Jordan
#91. He is a king, whatever you or he or anyone else says, and a king or queen must dispense justice without fear of enemies or favor for friends. Anyone who does that has to be hard. Mother
Robert Jordan
#93. The roar behind him was louder than anything he had ever heard in his life; a monstrous fist punched him in the back, knocking all the wind out of him even before he landed, sprawled on his belly on the wall top, barely holding on to his staff as it swung over the edge.
Robert Jordan
#94. A man needed all of his wits dealing with a woman. Too often even that was not enough;
Robert Jordan
#96. They were high up. If he fell, he'd have time to hum three verses of "She Has No Ankles That I Can See" before he hit. Maybe an extra round of the chorus.
Robert Jordan
#97. 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
#98. Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes? -
That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.
Robert Jordan
#100. I feel . . ." Egwene began weakly, and stopped to swallow. Her face was bloodless pale. "I . . . hurt." A tear leaked from one eye. "Of course you do," Sorilea said briskly. "That is what happens when you let yourself be caught in a man's schemes.
Robert Jordan
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