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Top 25 Ian C. Esslemont Quotes (2025 Update)

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten.”

1. “When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “Memories are not the truth of the past. We sculpt them to suit our images of our present selves. And, in any case, the truth of then is not the truth of now.”

2. “Memories are not the truth of the past. We sculpt them to suit our images of our present selves. And, in any case, the truth of then is not the truth of now.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “And that just makes it all the harder, doesn’t it? Not being special. Not having that funny mark or that omen at your birth. Just an ordinary person asked to step up to do the extraordinary.”

3. “And that just makes it all the harder, doesn’t it? Not being special. Not having that funny mark or that omen at your birth. Just an ordinary person asked to step up to do the extraordinary.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “Reaching out for companionship – for a human touch – is not a mistake. Withholding such a thing is the mistake.”

4. “Reaching out for companionship – for a human touch – is not a mistake. Withholding such a thing is the mistake.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “The Malazan way,’ he breathed. ‘The murderer’s touch. A brush of cloth. A sip of wine. The gleam of a blade as fine as a snake’s tooth. Your name whispered just as you fall into sleep.”

5. “The Malazan way,’ he breathed. ‘The murderer’s touch. A brush of cloth. A sip of wine. The gleam of a blade as fine as a snake’s tooth. Your name whispered just as you fall into sleep.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “The problem with paths is that once you have chosen one, You cannot choose the others. Attributed to Gothos.”

6. “The problem with paths is that once you have chosen one, You cannot choose the others. Attributed to Gothos.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “Be not too rigid, For you will shatter; Be not too yielding, For you will be bowed.”

7. “Be not too rigid, For you will shatter; Be not too yielding, For you will be bowed.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “The superstitions of the ignorant are no concern of mine.”

8. “The superstitions of the ignorant are no concern of mine.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “Ware the cold, human. Ware the ice that grips. The frost that silences.”

9. “Ware the cold, human. Ware the ice that grips. The frost that silences.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “Perhaps it is the case that no organization or hierarchy can withstand the closest of scrutiny. Not even a smugly self-touted meritocracy. The success and persistence of utter fools everywhere is sad testament to that.”

10. “Perhaps it is the case that no organization or hierarchy can withstand the closest of scrutiny. Not even a smugly self-touted meritocracy. The success and persistence of utter fools everywhere is sad testament to that.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.”

11. “It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “Only the dead should be certain of anything.”

12. “Only the dead should be certain of anything.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “Xethel laughed again, though rather nervously this time. ‘Then I name you Amman-an-ash. The One Who Would Know Everything.’ She nodded in Dancer’s direction. ‘And you I name Coth-tel-ish-ath. The One Who Watches and Judges.”

13. “Xethel laughed again, though rather nervously this time. ‘Then I name you Amman-an-ash. The One Who Would Know Everything.’ She nodded in Dancer’s direction. ‘And you I name Coth-tel-ish-ath. The One Who Watches and Judges.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “He knew that music spoke to the emotions, not the intellect. The heart was where people truly lived, and died. He also knew that this magic that music and poetry were said to possess was the power to touch that heart.”

14. “He knew that music spoke to the emotions, not the intellect. The heart was where people truly lived, and died. He also knew that this magic that music and poetry were said to possess was the power to touch that heart.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “Do not apologize. Offer sarcasm.”

15. “Do not apologize. Offer sarcasm.”

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Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “Tyranny remains because the weak and fearful seek it.”

16. “Tyranny remains because the weak and fearful seek it.”

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Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “Sarge?’ ‘What?’ ‘I was thinkin’ – ’ ‘How many times I gotta tell you not to do that, son. Bad for your health.”

17. “Sarge?’ ‘What?’ ‘I was thinkin’ – ’ ‘How many times I gotta tell you not to do that, son. Bad for your health.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “When one considers such ancient times one’s only recourse is the language of poetry. Thus legends, myths, creation accounts, history. All are no more than stories shaped to justify the present appearance of things.”

18. “When one considers such ancient times one’s only recourse is the language of poetry. Thus legends, myths, creation accounts, history. All are no more than stories shaped to justify the present appearance of things.”

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Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “Truth tellers were never welcome; most especially one’s own. Better to be a storyteller – they at least have grasped the essential truth that everyone prefers lies.”

19. “Truth tellers were never welcome; most especially one’s own. Better to be a storyteller – they at least have grasped the essential truth that everyone prefers lies.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “Paradise would be a city where pearls cobble roads and gems serve as playthings for children. And why? Not because all will be so wealthy, but because its citizens will have recognized that such things truly are toys.”

20. “Paradise would be a city where pearls cobble roads and gems serve as playthings for children. And why? Not because all will be so wealthy, but because its citizens will have recognized that such things truly are toys.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “No one expects the past to reach out and destroy the present – or the future.”

21. “No one expects the past to reach out and destroy the present – or the future.”

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Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “The heart was where people truly lived, and died.”

22. “The heart was where people truly lived, and died.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “Only way to sustain anything, to build anything, is to give! You understand me, girl? Give and give of y’self till there’s nothing left to give! Only then can you have something! If you take, you diminish things till there’s nothing left. If you give, you provide and things grow! Yes?”

23. “Only way to sustain anything, to build anything, is to give! You understand me, girl? Give and give of y’self till there’s nothing left to give! Only then can you have something! If you take, you diminish things till there’s nothing left. If you give, you provide and things grow! Yes?”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “We do not follow the philosophy of purity versus pollution. That is a false choice, a false dichotomy. The truth is, nothing is “pure”. Everything is the product of something else. To name something “pure” is to pretend it has no history, nothing before it, which is obviously false.”

24. “We do not follow the philosophy of purity versus pollution. That is a false choice, a false dichotomy. The truth is, nothing is “pure”. Everything is the product of something else. To name something “pure” is to pretend it has no history, nothing before it, which is obviously false.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

Ian C. Esslemont Quote: “Freedom – rather more complicated in the concrete than the abstract, yes?”

25. “Freedom – rather more complicated in the concrete than the abstract, yes?”

— Ian C. Esslemont

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