Top 120 David Eddings Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “God save us from religion.”

— David Eddings

2. “It’s gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.”

— David Eddings

3. “Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.”

— David Eddings

4. “As long as I know that my motives are good, I’m Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.”

— David Eddings

5. “If you’re going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you’re going to have to keep secrets from yourself.”

— David Eddings

6. “Now do you see why war irritates me? It’s always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn’t seem to occur to people.”

— David Eddings

7. “The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.”

— David Eddings

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8. “Why me?”

— David Eddings

9. “No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.”

— David Eddings

10. “Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.”

— David Eddings

11. “When ignorance is bliss, there’s folly in wisdom.”

— David Eddings

12. “I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen.”

— David Eddings

13. “Once you’ve decided that something’s absolutely true, you’ve closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn’t go anywhere. Question everything. That’s what education’s all about.”

— David Eddings

14. “But there’s a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?”

— David Eddings

15. “It’s the nature of man to ask questions. – Belgarath.”

— David Eddings

16. “Isn’t it easier to forgive than to hate? -Eriond.”

— David Eddings

17. “Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.”

— David Eddings

18. “When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.”

— David Eddings

19. “Consistency is the defense of a small mind.”

— David Eddings

20. “Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It’s one of things you’ll have to get used to, as you get older.”

— David Eddings

21. “It’s one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you’re too polite not to. – Polgara.”

— David Eddings

22. “The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion’ Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. ‘You just have to know how to look at it.”

— David Eddings

23. “Now’s the time to be alive – to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.”

— David Eddings

24. “Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.”

— David Eddings

25. “Trust me. – Silk.”

— David Eddings

26. “I’m a storyteller, not a prophet. I’m just interested in a good story.”

— David Eddings

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27. “Does bouncing count? – Silk, The Belgariad.”

— David Eddings

28. “Actually it’s very simple, but simple things are always the hardest to explain.”

— David Eddings

29. “The notion that any one person can describe ‘what really happened’ is an absurdity. If ten – or a hundred – people witness an event, there will be ten – or a hundred – different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience.”

— David Eddings

30. “A man should never miss an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.”

— David Eddings

31. “Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn’t change things.”

— David Eddings

32. “If you’d just try, I’m sure you’d be able to fly.”

— David Eddings

33. “Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.”

— David Eddings

34. “The one of us who lies the best will get the better of the bargain. It’s a game. A very exciting game that’s played all over the world. Good players got rich, and bad players don’t.”

— David Eddings

35. “Fear’s a part of life, Mandorallen, and it’s the only life we have.”

— David Eddings

36. “Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.”

— David Eddings

37. “As soon as a friendship passed a certain point – some obscure and secret boundary – a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.”

— David Eddings

38. “Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor’s degree. Normally a Bachelor’s is sort of like being stamped ‘Prime US Beef.’ They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.”

— David Eddings

39. “Wise are you, indeed,” the fox said, “to know what is not possible before you have made the attempt.”

— David Eddings

40. “As long as I know that my motives are good, however, I’m seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.”

— David Eddings

41. “We’re all entitled to a little stupidity now and then. – Beldin.”

— David Eddings

42. “For what place can be left for anything to happen at random so long as God controls everything in order? It is a true saying that nothing can come out of nothing.”

— David Eddings

43. “There’s a whole catalogue of nasty little emotions curdling in the human spirit, and anything the least bit out of the ordinary raises the possibility of retribution.”

— David Eddings

44. “As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.”

— David Eddings

45. “But in time the night, as all nights must, came to an end, and the morning dawned clear and bright.”

— David Eddings

46. “My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen.”

— David Eddings

47. “I’ve fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.”

— David Eddings

48. “We can try to act civilized and polite, but at the bottom of it all, the power of any ruler is based on a threat. Fortunately, we don’t have to carry that threat out too often.”

— David Eddings

49. “You’ll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I’m not denying that there might actually be a few signs that you won’t want to miss. Knowing the difference is the tricky part.”

— David Eddings

50. “Isn’t it odd how the little things can change a man’s entire life?”

— David Eddings