Top 300 Andrzej Sapkowski Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Lesser, greater, middling, it’s all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I’m not a pious hermit, I haven’t done only good in my life. But if I’m to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

2. “To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don’t have to kill your feelings. It’s enough to kill hatred within yourself.”

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3. “Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.”

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4. “But every dream, if dreamed too long, turns into a nightmare. And we awake from such dreams screaming.”

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5. “Draw me not without reason; sheath me not without honour”.”

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6. “The sword of destiny has two edges. You are one of them.”

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7. “Human greed knows no limits.”

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8. “But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn’t regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret.”

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9. “Truth is a shard of ice.”

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10. “I lose a great deal of my charm when one gets to know me better.”

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11. “But do you know when stories stop being stories? The moment someone begins to believe in them.”

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12. “When you know about something it stops being a nightmare. When you know how to fight something, it stops being so threatening.”

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13. “But if I’m to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”

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14. “Politeness costs nothing.”

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15. “You’ve mistaken the stars reflected on the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.”

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16. “I mistook stars reflected in a pond at night for those in the sky.”

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17. “Because I’ve overcome the vanity and pride of being different. I’ve understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I’ve understood that the sun shines differently when something changes, but I’m not the axis of those changes.”

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18. “Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster; for if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.”

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19. “In order to become a witcher, you have to be born in the shadow of destiny, and very few are born like that.”

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20. “You don’t have to kill your feelings. It’s enough to kill hatred within yourself.”

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21. “Life, it turns out, isn’t poetry! And do you know why? Because it’s so resistant to criticism!”

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22. “No. I’ve no time to waste. Winter’s coming.”

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23. “I warrant, Ciri, that it is better to count yourself amongst those few than amongst everyone.”

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24. “Remember,” she repeated, “magic is Chaos, Art and Science. It is a curse, a blessing and progress. It all depends on who uses magic, how they use it, and to what purpose. And magic is everywhere. All around us. Easily accessible.”

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25. “If you thirst for justice, hire a witcher.”

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26. “Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, I conjecture, will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself. There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity. Nicodemus de Boot, Meditations on life, Happiness and Prosperity.”

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27. “I’ll defend Nilfgaardian children. And even if the world lies in ruin – which does not seem likely to me – I’ll carry on killing monsters in the ruins of this world until some monster has killed me. That is my fate, my reason, my life and my attitude to the world. And it is not what I chose. It was chosen for me.”

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28. “Nature doesn’t know the concept of philosophy, Geralt of Rivia. The pathetic–ridiculous–attempts which people undertake to try to understand nature are typically termed philosophy. The results of such attempts are also considered philosophy. It’s as though a cabbage tried to investigate the causes and effects of its existence, called the result of these reflections “an eternal and mysterious conflict between head and root”, and considered rain an unfathomable causative power.”

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29. “For whoever doesn’t overcome the cowardice inside themselves will die of fear to the end of their days. The.”

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30. “People” – Geralt turned his head – “like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.”

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31. “Because I know that in order to unite two people, destiny is insufficient. Something more is necessary than destiny.”

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32. “What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth?”

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33. “Nonsense,” said the witcher. “And what’s more, it doesn’t rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.”

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34. “It’s better to die than to live in the knowledge that you’ve done something that needs forgiveness.”

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35. “Money,” he muttered, “opens all doors.”

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36. “I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn’t exist.”

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37. “No one wants to suffer. But that is the fate of each. And some suffer more. Not necessarily of their own volition. It’s not about to enduring the suffering. It’s about how you endure it.”

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38. “A popular saying at King Vizimir’s court held that if Dijkstra states it is noon yet darkness reigns all around, it is time to start worrying about the fate of the sun.”

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39. “There is never a second opportunity to make a first impression.”

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40. “Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any. But no one can escape his destiny.”

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41. “It is better to go forward without a goal, than to have a goal and stay in one place, and it is certainly better than to stay in one place without a goal.”

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42. “Cats like sleeping and resting on intersections. There are many stories about magical animals but really, apart from the dragon, the cat is the only creature which can absorb the force. No one knows why a cat absorbs it and what it does with it...”

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43. “You remind me, Geralt, of an old fisherman who, toward the end of his life, discovers that fish stink and the breeze from the sea makes your bones ache. Be consistent. Talking and regretting won’t get you anywhere.”

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44. “Ignorance is no justification for ill-conceived actions. When one doesn’t know or has doubts it’s best to seek advice.”

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45. “The misfortune behaved in the eternal manner of misfortunes and hawks – it hung over them for some while waiting for an appropriate moment before it attacked.”

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46. “Fringilla’ he answered after a while. ‘You’re a woman a man can only dream about. My Fault, my only fault, is that I don’t have the nature of a dreamer.”

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47. “Life is full of hazards, selection also occurs in life, Geralt. Misfortune, sicknesses and wars also select. Defying destiny may be just as hazardous as succumbing to it.”

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48. “To me, Madam Yennefer, wisdom includes the ability to turn a deaf ear to foolish or insincere advice.”

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49. “It’s incredible,’ the Witcher smiled hideously, ’how much my neutrality outrages everybody. How it makes me subject to offers of pacts and agreements, offers of collaboration, lectures about the necessity to make choices and join the right side.”

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50. “Because it would be the first proof I’ve ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.”

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