Top 60 Janny Wurts Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You can’t let your past write the future.”

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2. “Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight.”

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3. “Hate has no ears.”

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4. “When hope dies, you breathe it back to life again! No matter how long it takes, or what time’s required to heal the wound. Disappointment will not last a lifetime unless you lie down and give in.”

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5. “Did I mention any name?” But dissembling was wasted; Eldir only glowered until Sethvir gave way with a shrug. “That’s the part of his personality that makes us all feel like we’ve been kissing coiled vipers for a penny bet.”

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6. “A bad king revels in his importance. A good one hates his office. He spends himself into infirmity quashing deadly little plots to make power the tool of the greedy.”

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7. “Show me a hero and I’ll show you a man enslaved by his competence.”

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8. “It’s tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.”

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9. “A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.”

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10. “What is our experience, but the reflected truth of our misapprehensions and short-falls? And also the grace of our beauty and strength, and the wise choices that make up our character?”

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11. “You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.”

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12. “Look at yourself, idiot. You reek like the slaughter-house. Plan your dastard’s revenge as you like. But for those of us liking our company civilized, spare us the horror and bathe yourself first!”

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13. “This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight.”

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14. “Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.”

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15. “Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.”

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16. “No driven man hears unwanted counsel.”

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17. “Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned, no matter how hard we try to live up to them.”

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18. “Prudence, my prophet,’ the sorcerer rebuked. ‘The results of prophecies often resolve through strangely twisted circumstance.’ But if Asandir was yet aware that the promised talents were split between princes who were enemies with blood debts of seven generations, he said nothing.”

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19. “I always listen,” the duke said, annoyed. “Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders.”

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20. “I say human beings have purposeful brains beyond acting like flocks of scared pigeons.”

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21. “The wisest of sages have said that a man will choose violence out of fear.” The Master’s words were expressive, but cold, and directed toward the King. “Is your stature so mean that you dare not face me without fetters?”

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22. “The same sages also wrote that violence is the habit of the weak, the impotent and the fool.”

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23. “How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.”

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24. “The grievous burden of remorse shouted shame, that a criminally blind ideology could reject the promise of birthright, then mangle the exuberant vigour of life, designed by nature to celebrate only creative abundance.”

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25. “I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource.”

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26. “There’s an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another’s degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.”

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27. “Yet contrary evidence supports a claim that the Master was unjustly aligned with evil. Fragments of manuscript survive which expose the entire religion of Light as fraud, and award Arithon the attributes of saint and mystic instead.”

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28. “You always did like to run things, never mind your crafty knack for making everyone believe that somebody else was in charge.”

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29. “But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people!”

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30. “Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince.”

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31. “You cannot trust yourself,’ she agreed, bed-rock calm. ‘Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me.”

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32. “Prophets are dastardly pessimists, to a man.”

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33. “Never get old. It’s a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.”

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34. “I should be impressed?’ he commented finally. ‘World renowned for foul works and mayhem, whether I practise such doctrine, or not? A shame. Shown such vulgar taste, what man with a mind would scarcely wallow to seek further clarity. Sweet faith, bliss, and bathos, it’s an execrable drama. Never mind that the theological concepts are glorified platitudes sprung out of lies.”

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35. “What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?”

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36. “How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?”

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37. “I pity the man who can’t cry.”

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38. “But hope always kindles through striving.”

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39. “Does imagination or joy come with limits?”

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40. “You don’t have to like a man to respect him.”

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41. “Because you’ve survived, there is a next strategy.”

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42. “Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned. They exist, beyond price, and we cannot hope to match up to them.”

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43. “Mockery is the sure mark of the cynic, unredeemed and cut off from salvation.”

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44. “Doubt packs more damage, kept secret.”

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45. “I trust you,” she murmured through urgency. “Completely. Without end, and before the beginning.”

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46. “An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.”

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47. “There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them.”

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48. “Your prim faith in the True Sect’s canon serves naught. The temple preaches a loveless morality that cares not one jot for the plight of our livelihood. The priests are fat parasites, theosophizing on their rumps while folk like us break our backs, milked dry by their tithes and their rote obligations. Where does their doctrine show the least concern for our chance to enjoy the fruits of our happiness?”

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49. “Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who’s given us more, the Light’s faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter?”

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50. “The rebuke came, keen-edged. ‘Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he’s about.”

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