Top 400 Mark Lawrence Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Let’s go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.”

— Mark Lawrence

2. “No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.”

— Mark Lawrence

3. “Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you’ll find an edge to cut you.”

— Mark Lawrence

4. “We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.”

— Mark Lawrence

5. “Hate will keep you alive where love fails.”

— Mark Lawrence

6. “You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.”

— Mark Lawrence

7. “There’s a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it’s a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don’t want to know are best at.”

— Mark Lawrence

8. “I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.”

— Mark Lawrence

9. “I may be running out of options, but running out isn’t an option.”

— Mark Lawrence

10. “A dark time comes. My Time. If it offends you. Stop me.”

— Mark Lawrence

11. “I’ve always seen ‘no’ as a challenge rather than an answer.”

— Mark Lawrence

12. “Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.”

— Mark Lawrence

13. “The biggest lies we save for ourselves.”

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14. “Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.”

— Mark Lawrence

15. “You can’t grow if you’re constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can’t grow, you’re not alive.”

— Mark Lawrence

16. “When you’re in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It’s a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.”

— Mark Lawrence

17. “There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.”

— Mark Lawrence

18. “Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life – keep moving.”

— Mark Lawrence

19. “You’re a Good Little Slave.”

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20. “There’s a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It’s not until you look back, see the distant heights where you once lived, that you understand your journey.”

— Mark Lawrence

22. “Some men just want to watch the world burn.” He grinned. “I’m the fire.” “That you are, brother, and which of us is worse?”

— Mark Lawrence

23. “There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.”

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24. “Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.”

— Mark Lawrence

25. “Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.”

— Mark Lawrence

26. “I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we’re born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you’re strangers. Maybe that’s what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.”

— Mark Lawrence

27. “Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.”

— Mark Lawrence

28. “It’s an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.”

— Mark Lawrence

29. “Few things worth having can be got easily.”

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30. “Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.”

— Mark Lawrence

31. “Though I might walk where angels fear to tread, I try not to rush in like a fool.”

— Mark Lawrence

32. “There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Something sharp that puts an edge on all the soft words I once owned.”

— Mark Lawrence

33. “Some tell it that “sorry” is the hardest word, but for me it has always been “help”.”

— Mark Lawrence

34. “We can’t be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.”

— Mark Lawrence

35. “Sometime, It’s easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.”

— Mark Lawrence

36. “A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.”

— Mark Lawrence

37. “They call me a monster and if it were untrue the weight of my crimes would pin me to the ground. I have maimed and I have murdered and if this mountain stood but a little higher I would cut the angels from their heaven. I care less for accusations than for the rain that soaks me, that runs down every limb. I spit both from my lips. Judgment has always left a sour taste.”

— Mark Lawrence

38. “It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh.”

— Mark Lawrence

39. “A part of me longed to lay it all down, that weight I carried, the acid pain of memory, the corrosion of hate.”

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40. “I held to my anger, drank from my well of poison. These things are not good things, but at least they’re mine.”

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41. “There is a purity in rage. It will burn out sorrow. For a time. It will burn out fear. Even cruelty and hatred will seek shelter, rage wants none of them, only to destroy. Rage is the gift our nature gives to us, shaped by untold years. Why discard it?”

— Mark Lawrence

42. “And we went out into the day, and all the heat of it couldn’t touch the ice in me.”

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43. “Each hour became a process of taking a dull future and squeezing it into a dull past through the narrow slot of the moment – a moment, like each other, crowded with pain and exhaustion, and with a cold that crept around you like a lover carrying murder in her heart.”

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44. “These feelings are too fierce to last. They can only burn, making us ash and char.”

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45. “Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.”

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46. “Death claims us all in the end, but the warrior chooses the ground on which she meets it, and the manner; she makes death run to catch up.”

— Mark Lawrence

47. “War, my friends, is a thing of beauty. Those as says otherwise are losing.”

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48. “Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.”

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49. “Your dreams are what will tear you apart. Every man is the victim of his own imagination: we all carry the seeds of our own destruction.” He tapped a long finger to his forehead. “It feeds on your fears.”

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50. “I’m a good liar. A great one. And to be a great liar you have to live your lies, to believe them, to the point that when you tell them to yourself enough times, even what’s right before your eyes will bend itself to the falsehood.”

— Mark Lawrence