Top 380 Christopher Paolini Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.”

— Christopher Paolini

52. “What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life.”

— Christopher Paolini

53. “Do not dwell on what once was, but rather look forward and ponder how you can make the future brighter.”

— Christopher Paolini

54. “Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon.”

— Christopher Paolini

55. “Die puny human!”

— Christopher Paolini

56. “And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond.”

— Christopher Paolini

57. “Heart broken-he felt a deep ache in his chest, like that of a sore muscle, and each beat of his heart pained him.”

— Christopher Paolini

58. “Kvetha, Shur’tugal Greetings, Dragon Rider.”

— Christopher Paolini

59. “Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.”

— Christopher Paolini

60. “There is no more exciting sport than flying, for if you lose, you die.”

— Christopher Paolini

61. “I’ve never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies.”

— Christopher Paolini

62. “I’m afraid I’ve degenerated into a bibliophile.”

— Christopher Paolini

63. “I refuse to repent, and I won’t plague myself over what is done and past.”

— Christopher Paolini

64. “To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.”

— Christopher Paolini

65. “All we can do is strive to accept our fate with grace, whatever it might be.”

— Christopher Paolini

66. “When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.”

— Christopher Paolini

67. “What will happen will happen and I won’t waste my time worrying.”

— Christopher Paolini

68. “Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.”

— Christopher Paolini

69. “I know what we do is right but right doesn’t always mean easy.”

— Christopher Paolini

70. “You’ve seen things through my eyes.”

— Christopher Paolini

71. “It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.”

— Christopher Paolini

72. “Happiness, Eragon had decided, was a fleeting, futile thing to pursue. Contentment, on the other hand, was a far more worthwhile goal.”

— Christopher Paolini

73. “It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.”

— Christopher Paolini

74. “The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.”

— Christopher Paolini

75. “Have you ever considered the fact that everything we are originates from the remnants of stars that once exploded?” Jorrus said, “Vita ex pulvis.” “We are made from the dust of dead stars.”

— Christopher Paolini

76. “Pekerjaan laki-laki, atau pekerjaan perempuan, adalah pekerjaan yang harus diselesaikan – Roran.”

— Christopher Paolini

77. “What is possible is subjective. It’s a matter of perspective.”

— Christopher Paolini

78. “It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.”

— Christopher Paolini

79. “The only antidote for the corrosive poison of violence is finding peace within yourself.”

— Christopher Paolini

80. “The Cripple Who Is Whole,” murmured.”

— Christopher Paolini

81. “Eragon’s rearing – limited as it was by Garrow’s scant tutelage – had exposed him only to the knowledge needed to run a farm.”

— Christopher Paolini

82. “However, Oromis and I have had centuries to reconcile ourselves with the fact that such a parting is inevitable. No matter how careful we are, if we live long enough, eventually one of us will die. It is not a happy thought, but it is the truth. Such is the way of the world.”

— Christopher Paolini

83. “Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly.”

— Christopher Paolini

84. “People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn’t.”

— Christopher Paolini

85. “Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They’ll not be able to once you lop off their heads.”

— Christopher Paolini

86. “If he fancied her anymore,? Saphira said to both Eragon and Roran, ‘I’d be trying to kiss Arya myself.’ ‘Saphira!’ Mortified, Eragon swatted her on the leg.”

— Christopher Paolini

87. “You must learn to see, what you are looking at.”

— Christopher Paolini

88. “Dragons, like wagons, Have tongues. Dragons, like flagons, Have necks. But while two hold beer, The other eats deer!”

— Christopher Paolini

89. “Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces.”

— Christopher Paolini

90. “What a strange expression said the herbalist who would compare themselves to chopped liver in the first place? If you have to to choose an organ why not pick a gallbladder or a thymus gland instead? Much more interesting than a liver. Or what about chopped t-.”

— Christopher Paolini

91. “The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.”

— Christopher Paolini

92. “Especially when you’re around to cuckold the husband.”

— Christopher Paolini

93. “Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.”

— Christopher Paolini

94. “From the corner of his eye, Eragon saw Orik hewing Urgal necks with mighty blows of his ax.”

— Christopher Paolini

95. “These books are my friends, my companions.”

— Christopher Paolini

96. “Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you.”

— Christopher Paolini

97. “From now on you’re going to have to think. There’s a reason why we’re born with brains in our heads, not rocks.”

— Christopher Paolini

98. “It’s overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.”

— Christopher Paolini

99. “Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.”

— Christopher Paolini

100. “Whatever you do, protect those you care for. Without them, life is more miserable than you can imagine.”

— Christopher Paolini