Top 500 Jim Butcher Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love.”

— Jim Butcher

2. “You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.”

— Jim Butcher

3. “Sleep is God. Go worship.”

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4. “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.”

— Jim Butcher

5. “I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.”

— Jim Butcher

6. “The reward for work well-done is more work.”

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7. “Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another.”

— Jim Butcher

8. “Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn’t coming back?”

— Jim Butcher

9. “Are you always a smartass?? Nope. Sometimes I’m asleep.”

— Jim Butcher

10. “Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It’s like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.”

— Jim Butcher

11. “Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”

— Jim Butcher

12. “Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do.”

— Jim Butcher

13. “If you can’t manage courtesy, try silence.”

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14. “There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.”

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15. “HARRY DRESDEN – WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment.”

— Jim Butcher

16. “Son. Everyone dies alone. That’s what it is. It’s a door. It’s one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn’t mean you’ve got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren’t alone on the other side.”

— Jim Butcher

17. “Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.”

— Jim Butcher

18. “There are things you can’t walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.”

— Jim Butcher

19. “There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.”

— Jim Butcher

20. “It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.”

— Jim Butcher

21. “There aren’t any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.”

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22. “Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.”

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23. “You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!”

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24. “A lot can change in a year.”

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25. “Sometimes it isn’t easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn’t turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.”

— Jim Butcher

26. “Tiny, but fierce!”

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27. “Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.”

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28. “There is no spoon.”

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29. “Fear is a part of life. It’s a warning mechanism. That’s all. It tells you when there’s danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.”

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30. “There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.”

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31. “Don’t mess with a wizard when he’s wizarding!”

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32. “We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.”

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33. “My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.”

— Jim Butcher

34. “There are bad things in the world. There’s no getting away from that. But that doesn’t mean nothing can be done about them. You can’t abandon life just because it’s scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.”

— Jim Butcher

35. “Paranoid? Probably. But just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.”

— Jim Butcher

36. “Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.”

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37. “The movie of my life must be really low budget.”

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38. “Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”

— Jim Butcher

39. “Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.”

— Jim Butcher

40. “As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary.”

— Jim Butcher

41. “Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.”

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42. “Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.”

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43. “The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.”

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44. “If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.”

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45. “Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can’t weave together a spell that you don’t beleive in.”

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46. “I don’t have a muse. I have a mortgage.”

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47. “But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.”

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48. “Age is always advancing and I’m fairly sure it’s up to no good.”

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49. “Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can’t do that without becoming them, just a little.”

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50. “Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.”

— Jim Butcher