Top 380 Christopher Paolini Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Names are powerful things; you should be careful whom you share yours with. You never know when a person might turn your name against you.”

— Christopher Paolini

102. “To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.”

— Christopher Paolini

103. “Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.”

— Christopher Paolini

104. “Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more.”

— Christopher Paolini

105. “Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry.”

— Christopher Paolini

106. “For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me.”

— Christopher Paolini

107. “No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.”

— Christopher Paolini

108. “It’s life’s natural course. All will be fine; time will settle everything.”

— Christopher Paolini

109. “May your swords stay sharp -Brom.”

— Christopher Paolini

110. “Understanding breeds empathy.”

— Christopher Paolini

111. “Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.”

— Christopher Paolini

112. “Too late. It’s hatched.”

— Christopher Paolini

113. “The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.”

— Christopher Paolini

114. “If you don’t make a few ememies now and then, you’re a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry! – Angela to Eragon.”

— Christopher Paolini

115. “Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.? Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!’Saphira teased.”

— Christopher Paolini

116. “From now on, I promise I wil consult with you before I do anything you don’t expect. Is that acceptable? Only if it involves weapons, magic, kings, or family members, she said. Or flowers. Or flowers, she agreed.”

— Christopher Paolini

117. “He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible.”

— Christopher Paolini

118. “After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. – Saphira.”

— Christopher Paolini

119. “He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.”

— Christopher Paolini

120. “Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written ‘Eragon’ if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework – I wouldn’t have had the time to write.”

— Christopher Paolini

121. “Nothing is more dangerous than an enemy with nothing to lose, he thought. Which is what I have become.”

— Christopher Paolini

122. “A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.”

— Christopher Paolini

123. “Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.”

— Christopher Paolini

124. “If we are to tempt fate, then let us not be cowards about it.”

— Christopher Paolini

125. “Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.”

— Christopher Paolini

126. “He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!”

— Christopher Paolini

127. “It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.”

— Christopher Paolini

128. “When the time comes and you need a weapon, look under the roots of the Menoa tree. Then, when all seems lost and your power is insufficient, go to the Rock of Kuthian and speak your name to open the Vault of Souls.”

— Christopher Paolini

129. “It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle. For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.”

— Christopher Paolini

130. “They may fight with us, but they don’t fight for us.”

— Christopher Paolini

131. “My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I’ve learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts.”

— Christopher Paolini

132. “Live the present, remember the past, and fear not the future-Saphira in Eldest.”

— Christopher Paolini

133. “I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I’ve always been very grateful for.”

— Christopher Paolini

134. “Root of a tree, fruit of a vine, let me pass by this blood of mine.”

— Christopher Paolini

135. “It is always thus. The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have.”

— Christopher Paolini

136. “It s funny to see a hatchling like you beaten by the old one.”

— Christopher Paolini

137. “It’s amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.”

— Christopher Paolini

138. “You cannot miss what you have never had.”

— Christopher Paolini

139. “Let’s drop rocks on them!”

— Christopher Paolini

140. “If a dragon has already transferred their consciousness to their heart of hearts, then they will die a true death.”

— Christopher Paolini

141. “Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.”

— Christopher Paolini

142. “I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father’s rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.”

— Christopher Paolini

143. “Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.”

— Christopher Paolini

144. “Pain is pain. It needs no description.”

— Christopher Paolini

145. “For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.”

— Christopher Paolini

146. “Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another – and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast – the question remains: should I?”

— Christopher Paolini

147. “I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.”

— Christopher Paolini

148. “When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side.”

— Christopher Paolini

149. “When the sun touched the earth, it spread out along the horizon like a giant yolk oozing free of its skin.”

— Christopher Paolini

150. “Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?”

— Christopher Paolini