Top 300 Andrzej Sapkowski Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Because it would be the first proof I’ve ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

52. “Unbridled altruism is a huge vice of mine,’ he explained. ‘I simply have to do good. I am a sensible dwarf, however, and know that I’m unable to do everyone good. Were I to attempt to be good to everyone, to the entire world and to all the creatures living in it, it would be a drop of fresh water in the salt sea. In other words, a wasted effort. Thus, I decided to do specific good; good which would not go to waste. I’m good to myself and my immediate circle.”

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53. “Dandelion,’ the Witcher sighed, now genuinely tired. ‘You’re a cynic, a lecher, a womaniser and a liar. And there’s nothing, believe me, nothing complicated about that. Goodnight.”

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54. “Yes, we are corpses. But you are death. Ciri.”

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55. “Only in fables survives what cannot survive in nature. Only myths and fables do not know the limits of possibility.’ Three.”

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56. “Later, it was said the man came from the north, from Ropers Gate.”

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57. “Destiny has many faces. Mine is beautiful on the outside and hideous on the inside. She has stretched her bloody talons toward me –.”

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58. “Yet this faint sound was enough to wake the witcher – or maybe it only tore him from the half-slumber in which he rocked monotonously, as though travelling though fathomless depths, suspended between the sea bed and its calm surface amidst gently undulating strands of seaweed. He.”

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59. “Thirdly,’ the Witcher replied in a tired voice, ’the monthly quota on miracles was used up when the woman from Kernow found her missing husband.”

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60. “As usual, cats and children noticed him first.”

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61. “In this rotten world, Zoltan Chivay, goodness, honesty and integrity become deeply engraved in the memory.”

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62. “And so it’s an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? Blood for blood? And for that blood, more blood? A sea of blood? Do you want to drown the world in blood? O naive, damaged girl! Is that how you mean to fight evil, little witcher?”

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63. “Well, what can I say, it’s a base world,’ he finally muttered. ‘But that’s no reason for us all to become despicable.”

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64. “A baptism of fire, the Witcher thought, furiously striking and parrying blows. I was meant to pass through fire for Ciri. And I’m passing through fire in a battle which is of no interest to me at all. Which I don’t understand in any way. The fire that was meant to purify me is just scorching my hair and face.”

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65. “We know little about love. Love is like a pear. A pear is sweet and has a distinct shape. Try to define the shape of a pear. Dandelion, Half a Century of Poetry.”

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66. “A story can only be contained in a book.”

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67. “Well, we’re afeared. And what of it? Do we sit down and weep and tremble? Life must go on. And what will be, will be. What is destined can’t be avoided, in any case.”

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68. “I consider gazing into the abyss utter foolishness. There are many things in the world much more worth gazing into.”

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69. “And only then did I understand how stupid I was.”

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70. “Friendship is either the result of a lengthy process or is spontaneous.”

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71. “Women don’t need money. I mean what for? They don’t drink, they don’t play dice, and they’re bloody women themselves.”

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72. “It is easy to kill with a bow, girl. How easy it is to release the bowstring and think, it is not I, it is the arrow. The blood of that boy is not on my hands. The arrow killed him, not I. But the arrow does not dream anything in the night.”

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73. “Ambition is the undoing of men. They always want what they know to be impossible and unattainable. And they are unaware of the attainable.”

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74. “They weren’t lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn’t change the facts.”

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75. “Give me my sword, Geralt.’ He looked at her. Ciri stepped back involuntarily. She had never seen him with an expression like that before. ‘If you had a sword, you might have to kill with it. Can you do it?’ ‘I don’t know. Give me my sword.’ ‘Run. And don’t look back.’ Horses.”

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76. “Madam Yennefer, Forgive me. I’m riding to Hirundum because I want to see Geralt. I want to see him before I start school. Forgive my disobedience, but I must. I know you’ll punish me, but I don’t want to regret my indecision and hesitation. If I’m to have regrets, let them be for deeds and actions. I’m an enchantress. I seize life by the scruff of the neck. I’ll return when I can. – Ciri.”

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77. “You aren’t a monster, Nivellen,” the witcher said dryly. “Pox, that’s something new. So what am I? Cranberry pudding? A flock of wild geese flying south on a sad November morning? No? Maybe I’m the virtue that a miller’s buxom daughter lost in spring? Well, Geralt, tell me what I am. Can’t you see I’m shaking with curiosity?”

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78. “Lilit’s path was to be prepared by ‘sixty women wearing gold crowns, who would fill the river valleys with blood.’” “Nonsense,” said the witcher. “And what’s more, it doesn’t rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.”

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79. “The sunrise, however, represents another victory in the fight for life, a new day, the continuation of existence.”

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80. “Let them call me a traitor and a coward. Because I, Yarpen Zigrin, coward, traitor and renegade, state that we should not kill each other. I state that we ought to live. Live in such a way that we don’t, later, have to ask anyone for forgiveness.”

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81. “A heavy smell of sour wine, candles and overripe fruit hung in the air. And something else, that bought to mind a mixture of the scents of lilac and gooseberries.”

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82. “Guard against disappointments, because appearances can deceive. Things that are really as they seem are rare. And a woman is never as she seems.”

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83. “All around, everywhere you look, is dullness and uncertainty. Even something born of beauty soon leads to boredom and banality, commonplace, the human ritual, the tedious rhythm of life.”

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84. “Women don’t have a say in my house. But, just between us, don’t do what you did during supper last time in front of her again.” “You mean when I threw my fork at that rat?” “No. I mean when you hit it, even in the dark.”

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85. “That’s the role of poetry, Ciri. To say what others cannot utter.”

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86. “Caldemeyn waddled on the spot and looked at Geralt. The witcher shrugged. Carrypebble picked his nose with serious concentration.”

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87. “I believe in the sword. As you can see, I carry two. Every witcher does. It’s said, spitefully, the silver one is for monsters and the iron for humans. But that’s wrong. As there are monsters which can be struck down only with a silver blade, so there are those for whom iron is lethal. And lola, not just any iron, it must come from a meteorite.”

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88. “We enter the world as a minute part of the life we are given, and from then on we are ever paying off debts. To ourselves. For ourselves. In order for the final reckoning to tally.”

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89. “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...”

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90. “And now he was glowing with happiness, pride and a sense of importance, like every liar when his lies accidentally turn out to be true.”

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91. “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.”

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92. “There may no longer be faith nor truth in the world, but surely good sense still exists. What say you, Dandelion? Is there still good sense in the world? Or do only contemptibility and contempt remain?”

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93. “I believe you, why not?’ she finally said. ‘Men like to meet their former lovers, like to relive memories. They like to imagine that erstwhile erotic ecstasies give them some kind of perpetual ownership of their partner. It enhances their self-importance. You are no exception. In spite of everything.”

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94. “No, Dandelion stuck with his first version. And he never sang it. Never. To no one. Right before the dawn, while it was still dark, a hungry, vicious werewolf crept up to their camp, but saw that it was Dandelion, so he listened for a moment and then went on his way.”

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95. “In each of us lies a creditor and a debtor at once and the art is for the reckoning to tally inside us. We enter the world as a minute part of the life we are given, and from then on we are ever paying off debts. To ourselves. For ourselves. In order for the final reckoning to tally.’ ‘Is.”

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96. “Truth is one thing, poetry another.”

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97. “For the moment, I am relying on the authority of Cahir aep Ceallach, the only soldier in our company-and Cahir confirmed that winning battles by means of a rapid escape from the battlefield is permissible from the point of view of most military doctrines.”

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98. “Don’t mock me, Witcher. The matter is becoming serious. It’s becoming ever less clear what this is all about, and when no one knows what something’s about it’s sure to be all about money.”

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99. “She’s going to die of fear her whole life. For whoever doesn’t overcome the cowardice inside themselves will die of fear to the end of their days.”

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100. “Elves live a long time, Ciri. By our time scale they are almost eternal. They thought humans were something that would pass, like a drought, like a heavy winter, or a plague of locusts, after which comes rain, spring, a new harvest. They wanted to sit it out. Survive.”

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