Top 80 Margaret Weis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Hope is the denial of reality.”

— Margaret Weis

2. “You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.”

— Margaret Weis

3. “Est Sularus oth Mithas” – “My honor is life.”

— Margaret Weis

4. “A mage’s soul is forged in the crucible of the magic.”

— Margaret Weis

5. “If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.”

— Margaret Weis

6. “I wanted to tell her that sometimes, in my long sleep, I dreamt of her.”

— Margaret Weis

7. “It is written in the Disks of Mishakal that evil, by its very nature, will always turn in upon itself. Thus it becomes self-defeating.”

— Margaret Weis

8. “Evil turns upon itself.”

— Margaret Weis

9. “A single drop, though it falls into an ocean, will yet cause a ripple.”

— Margaret Weis

10. “Truth wasn’t something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.”

— Margaret Weis

11. “In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.”

— Margaret Weis

12. “What is happiness, after all, but the fleeting, transitory butterfly of an emotion that is impossible to catch and hold for long before it flies away.”

— Margaret Weis

13. “His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.”

— Margaret Weis

14. “Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.”

— Margaret Weis

15. “Now her smile was like the bleakness of the sun in a cold winter sky. It gave light but no warmth, perhaps because there was no matching warmth in her eyes.”

— Margaret Weis

16. “A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.”

— Margaret Weis

17. “Be thankful you can feel pity and horror at the death of an enemy. The day we cease to care, even for our enemies, is the day we have lost this battle.”

— Margaret Weis

18. “Yes, I am smarter than you – all of you. And someday I will prove it! Someday you – with all your strength and charm and good looks – you, all of you, will call me master!”

— Margaret Weis

19. “If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth.”

— Margaret Weis

20. “Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn’t turn water into ice in the dead of winter!”

— Margaret Weis

21. “Hope lives. No matter the mistakes we make, no matter our blunders and misunderstandings, no matter the grief and sorrow and loss, no matter how deep the darkness, hope lives.”

— Margaret Weis

22. “I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. – Raistlin Majere.”

— Margaret Weis

23. “That’s it!” cried Fizban. “I remembered!” Suddenly the air was filled with strands of sticky, floating cobweb.”

— Margaret Weis

24. “Magic is the recognition of the fire burning behind us when all else see only their own shadow on the wall.”

— Margaret Weis

25. “You are very wise, Tanis Half-Elven. But this time you are wrong,” she said to herself as she stood alone on her porch. “Lady Crysania isn’t mad. She’s in love.”

— Margaret Weis

26. “Say that our lives are measured not by gain but by giving.”

— Margaret Weis

27. “It was an old kender proverb – Don’t change color to match the walls. Look like you belong and the walls will change color to match you.”

— Margaret Weis

28. “Good” and “kender” being two words that were rarely, if ever, linked, Tasslehoff spent the time sitting at the table, thinking about what a good kender might be and wondering if he was one himself. He assumed he probably was, since he was a hero and all that.”

— Margaret Weis

29. “Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.”

— Margaret Weis

30. “You know sometimes I wish I’d been born a kender. No worries. No cares. No responsibilities. Nothing but pork chops. See you tonight Brother. I’d ask you to say a prayer but we’re up to our eyeballs in gods as it is.”

— Margaret Weis

31. “Save your energy,” he said. “The future changes as we stand here, else we are the game pieces of the gods, not their heirs, as we have been promised.”

— Margaret Weis

32. “Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don’t see that the darkness has a purpose – though we may not understand it – and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!”

— Margaret Weis

33. “The heart communes best when it does not try to speak.”

— Margaret Weis

34. “Why Is It That When You Wash Two Socks You Only End Up With One? Is There Life After Death? and Where Did The Other Sock Go?”

— Margaret Weis

35. “Haplo: ‘single, alone.’ That is your name and your destiny,” said his father, his finger rough and hard on Haplo’s chest. “Your mother and I have defeated the odds thrown for us already. Every Gate we pass from now on is a wink at fate. But the time will come when the Labyrinth will claim us, as it claims all except the lucky and the strong. And the lucky and the strong are generally the lonely. Repeat your name.”

— Margaret Weis

36. “Tanis listens to his feelings. He does not suppress them, as does the knight, or hide them, as does the Plainsman. Tanis realizes that sometimes a leader must think with his heart and not his head.” Raistlin glanced at her. “Remember that.”

— Margaret Weis

37. “In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.”

— Margaret Weis

38. “There comes a time, Laurana, when you’ve got to risk your life for something you believe in – something that means more than life itself.”

— Margaret Weis

39. “Physicists don’t believe in wizards – a fact that I, being a wizard, find highly insulting. I have taken my revenge, therefore, by refusing to believe in physicists.”

— Margaret Weis

40. “Tanis at first wondered what the mage was studying, then realized it was his spellbook. It is the curse of the magi that they must constantly study and recommit their spells to memory every day. The words of magic flame in the mind, then flicker and die when the spell is cast. Each spell burns up some of the magician’s physical and mental energy until he is totally exhausted and must rest before he can use his magic again.”

— Margaret Weis

41. “All I know is that faith comes from within and it begins with faith in yourself; the knowledge that you have within you the ability to judge between the dark and the light and to act accordingly.”

— Margaret Weis

42. “It seems to me that being a great friend is more important than being a great hero or a great warrior. Being a good friend is the most important thing there is. Just think, if everyone in the world were great friends, then we wouldn’t be such terrible enemies.”

— Margaret Weis

43. “No, as I’ve discovered, hate generally costs a man more than he can afford.”

— Margaret Weis

44. “We’d better get going.” Caramon glanced around uneasily. “We show up like a jewel in a gypsy dancer’s navel.”

— Margaret Weis

45. “People want to believe in something – even if, deep inside, they know it is false. But.”

— Margaret Weis

46. “The loincloth, too, was ornamented in gold and barely covered his private parts decently.”

— Margaret Weis

47. “The blade must past threw the fire, else it breaks.”

— Margaret Weis

48. “Power is like the bright and shining silver globe, Your Majesty. You won it and now you hold it easily. You see yourself reflected in its silver surface, you see youth and beauty and adoring crowds. And then, suddenly, the spikes! Your hands impaled upon the silver, shining globe. Not so easy to hold on to now, is it, sire? Not so easy to look on your reflection and see it smeared with blood! But you must hold on to it and endure the pain.”

— Margaret Weis

49. “In sound’s absence, silence echoes.”

— Margaret Weis

50. “He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. ‘If you look at all the big things in the world closely,’ he said, ‘you’ll see that they’re really made up of small things all joined together.’ That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It’s the small things that make the difference.”

— Margaret Weis