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Top 450 Mark Lawrence Quotes (2026 Update)
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Mark Lawrence Quote: “Nothing paralyses a man so well as choice.”

201. “Nothing paralyses a man so well as choice.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “The important thing in running away is not how fast you run but simply that you run faster than the next man.”

202. “The important thing in running away is not how fast you run but simply that you run faster than the next man.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Strangely it was social embarrassment that kept me from crying my eyes out, shouting at the injustice of it, kicking tables over: the idea that the strangers to either side might have heard my diagnosis and even now be listening and silently judging me. How terribly British.”

203. “Strangely it was social embarrassment that kept me from crying my eyes out, shouting at the injustice of it, kicking tables over: the idea that the strangers to either side might have heard my diagnosis and even now be listening and silently judging me. How terribly British.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “These lines are hooks, I’m fishing unknown seas.”

204. “These lines are hooks, I’m fishing unknown seas.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “There are no other choices for you, Prince Jalan, and when there are no choices all men are equally brave.”

205. “There are no other choices for you, Prince Jalan, and when there are no choices all men are equally brave.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Pain can stay the same while you change around it. And, like a thumb of constant size, what it blocks out depends on how close it gets to you. At arm’s length a thumb obscures a small fragment of the day. Held close enough to your eye it can blind you to everything that matters, relegating the world to a periphery.”

206. “Pain can stay the same while you change around it. And, like a thumb of constant size, what it blocks out depends on how close it gets to you. At arm’s length a thumb obscures a small fragment of the day. Held close enough to your eye it can blind you to everything that matters, relegating the world to a periphery.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “I was more ass than assassin.”

207. “I was more ass than assassin.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “Always take the money,” Hennan offered with a small grin.”

208. “Always take the money,” Hennan offered with a small grin.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “I’ve learned to wear my face as a mask, and generally I can write what I choose on it.”

209. “I’ve learned to wear my face as a mask, and generally I can write what I choose on it.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “It cannot be helped.” Gorgoth’s hands closed into massive fists. “It’s in his dena.” “His dinner?”

210. “It cannot be helped.” Gorgoth’s hands closed into massive fists. “It’s in his dena.” “His dinner?”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Pride lets a man be skewered on the point of other people’s expectations.”

211. “Pride lets a man be skewered on the point of other people’s expectations.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it’s too much.”

212. “Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it’s too much.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Knowledge is a rug of a certain size, and the world is larger. It’s not what remains uncovered at the edges that should worry you, rather what is swept beneath.”

213. “Knowledge is a rug of a certain size, and the world is larger. It’s not what remains uncovered at the edges that should worry you, rather what is swept beneath.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “When a course of action is forced upon you it’s best to accept it with grace and milk it for whatever you can get, right up to the moment the first opportunity to weasel out of the deal presents itself.”

214. “When a course of action is forced upon you it’s best to accept it with grace and milk it for whatever you can get, right up to the moment the first opportunity to weasel out of the deal presents itself.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “It is important, when killing a novice, to ensure you bring a force of sufficient size.”

215. “It is important, when killing a novice, to ensure you bring a force of sufficient size.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Death was kind.” He drew a sharp breath. “But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.”

216. “Death was kind.” He drew a sharp breath. “But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Thorn carried in each limb every hour of her training, every day and year bound into the muscle of her arms, written along the length of her legs, beaten into the hardness of stomach and thigh. She knew five dozen ways to kill, she knew them with a lover’s intimacy, and in the execution perhaps lust also played its role – for what is lust but a hunger? And hunger must be fed.”

217. “Thorn carried in each limb every hour of her training, every day and year bound into the muscle of her arms, written along the length of her legs, beaten into the hardness of stomach and thigh. She knew five dozen ways to kill, she knew them with a lover’s intimacy, and in the execution perhaps lust also played its role – for what is lust but a hunger? And hunger must be fed.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Why would you do that?” I asked as he gasped. “Why would you hand me a lever to your pain?” I walked forward, bending the finger down, and he backed before me, into the crowd of his supporters, crying out, bowing low to lessen the sharp angle at which I held the digit.”

218. “Why would you do that?” I asked as he gasped. “Why would you hand me a lever to your pain?” I walked forward, bending the finger down, and he backed before me, into the crowd of his supporters, crying out, bowing low to lessen the sharp angle at which I held the digit.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “I’m only a little ashamed to say I outsprinted the boy. Old habits die hard. It’s good to be faster than what’s chasing you, but really the important thing in running away is to be faster than the slowest of those being pursued. Rule number one: be ahead of the next man. Or child.”

219. “I’m only a little ashamed to say I outsprinted the boy. Old habits die hard. It’s good to be faster than what’s chasing you, but really the important thing in running away is to be faster than the slowest of those being pursued. Rule number one: be ahead of the next man. Or child.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “Battles are all about strategy, and strategy pivots on priorities. Since my priorities were Prince Jalan, Prince Jalan, and Prince Jalan, with “looking good” a distant fourth, I took the opportunity to resume running away. I find that the main thing about success is the ability to act in the moment. A hero attacks in the moment; a good coward runs in it. The rest of the world waits for the next moment and ends up as crow food.”

220. “Battles are all about strategy, and strategy pivots on priorities. Since my priorities were Prince Jalan, Prince Jalan, and Prince Jalan, with “looking good” a distant fourth, I took the opportunity to resume running away. I find that the main thing about success is the ability to act in the moment. A hero attacks in the moment; a good coward runs in it. The rest of the world waits for the next moment and ends up as crow food.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “He looked once more across the ragged band before him, a family of sorts, pack rather than herd, a band of brothers who knew what lay at the core of him because they shared it, killers all. He looked down at the crimson weapons in his crimson hands and knew that moment of peace which happens when a thing surrenders to its nature.”

221. “He looked once more across the ragged band before him, a family of sorts, pack rather than herd, a band of brothers who knew what lay at the core of him because they shared it, killers all. He looked down at the crimson weapons in his crimson hands and knew that moment of peace which happens when a thing surrenders to its nature.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “It’s always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.”

222. “It’s always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Opera! There’s nothing like it. Except wild boars rutting. The.”

223. “Opera! There’s nothing like it. Except wild boars rutting. The.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “I saw the pity in him. A part of me wanted to take it, wanted to tell him how I’d struggled against those hooks, how I’d watched William die. A part of me longed to lay it all down, that weight I carried, the acid pain of memory, the corrosion of hate. Lundist.”

224. “I saw the pity in him. A part of me wanted to take it, wanted to tell him how I’d struggled against those hooks, how I’d watched William die. A part of me longed to lay it all down, that weight I carried, the acid pain of memory, the corrosion of hate. Lundist.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Questions for questions. You’re a man who’s spent time at court.”

225. “Questions for questions. You’re a man who’s spent time at court.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “I’ve become good at finding crumbs of comfort. Sometimes they’re all you have to eat.”

226. “I’ve become good at finding crumbs of comfort. Sometimes they’re all you have to eat.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “The greatest threat to any faith is not other faiths or beliefs but the corruption and division of its own message.”

227. “The greatest threat to any faith is not other faiths or beliefs but the corruption and division of its own message.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Oh come on, I just killed the fecking Pope. You are going to attack me, aren’t you?”

228. “Oh come on, I just killed the fecking Pope. You are going to attack me, aren’t you?”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “I should warn you that I’m not taken with horoscopes and such,” I told her. She licked her lips again and said nothing. “If you must know, I’m a goat,” I said. “That’s right, a fecking goat. There’s a whole nation of people behind the East Wall who say I was born in the year of the goat. I’ve no time for any system that has me as a goat. I don’t care how ancient their civilization is.”

229. “I should warn you that I’m not taken with horoscopes and such,” I told her. She licked her lips again and said nothing. “If you must know, I’m a goat,” I said. “That’s right, a fecking goat. There’s a whole nation of people behind the East Wall who say I was born in the year of the goat. I’ve no time for any system that has me as a goat. I don’t care how ancient their civilization is.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Weakness is a contagion, one breath of it can corrupt a man whole and entire. Now though, even with all the evil in me, I don’t know if I could teach such lessons to a son of mine.”

230. “Weakness is a contagion, one breath of it can corrupt a man whole and entire. Now though, even with all the evil in me, I don’t know if I could teach such lessons to a son of mine.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “What made my loss, my pain, any more important than everyone else’s.”

231. “What made my loss, my pain, any more important than everyone else’s.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “They could speak now, as adults, not separated by that gulf between a child’s ignorance and a grown-up’s sorrows.”

232. “They could speak now, as adults, not separated by that gulf between a child’s ignorance and a grown-up’s sorrows.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “And they’re thieves to a man. If you shake a Rhonish hand, count your fingers afterward.”

233. “And they’re thieves to a man. If you shake a Rhonish hand, count your fingers afterward.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “You would think it best to save your breath for running, but I often find screaming helps.”

234. “You would think it best to save your breath for running, but I often find screaming helps.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “All leaves must fall in time, she had said. The lives we lived fall away from us, but something remains, something that is part of the tree.”

235. “All leaves must fall in time, she had said. The lives we lived fall away from us, but something remains, something that is part of the tree.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man’s heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely.”

236. “I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man’s heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “The world is shaped by mankind’s desires and fears. A war of hope against dread, waged upon a substrate that man himself made malleable though he has long forgotten how. All men and all men’s works stand on feet of clay, waiting to be formed and reformed, forged by fear into monsters from the dark core of each soul, waiting to rend the world asunder.”

237. “The world is shaped by mankind’s desires and fears. A war of hope against dread, waged upon a substrate that man himself made malleable though he has long forgotten how. All men and all men’s works stand on feet of clay, waiting to be formed and reformed, forged by fear into monsters from the dark core of each soul, waiting to rend the world asunder.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Great emotion, it turns out, is a fire, and like a fire it needs fuel. Unfed it dies down to a hot and banked glow, ready to ignite again but leaving space for other matters.”

238. “Great emotion, it turns out, is a fire, and like a fire it needs fuel. Unfed it dies down to a hot and banked glow, ready to ignite again but leaving space for other matters.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Sometimes the world slows and you notice every small thing, as if you stood between two beats of eternity’s heart. It seemed to me I had felt something similar before, with Corion, with Sageous, even Jane. The air hung heavy with the metallic scent of rain. I wondered: if I stood out there, in the flood, would the rain wrap a grey life and make it shine? Should I stand, arms spread, and raise my face? Let it wash me clean. Or did my stains run too deep?”

239. “Sometimes the world slows and you notice every small thing, as if you stood between two beats of eternity’s heart. It seemed to me I had felt something similar before, with Corion, with Sageous, even Jane. The air hung heavy with the metallic scent of rain. I wondered: if I stood out there, in the flood, would the rain wrap a grey life and make it shine? Should I stand, arms spread, and raise my face? Let it wash me clean. Or did my stains run too deep?”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “She’ll never love you better than she loves her own children.”

240. “She’ll never love you better than she loves her own children.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Climb a mountain, see the world from its highest point and a new man will climb down.”

241. “Climb a mountain, see the world from its highest point and a new man will climb down.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Nothing is as cruel as a righteous man.”

242. “Nothing is as cruel as a righteous man.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “It being Sunday, the cook prepared a special treat for us. Snails in garlic and wine, with saffron rice. The snails came from the local cliffs. A big variety as thick as a child’s arm. But let’s face it, snails are just slugs with a hat on.”

243. “It being Sunday, the cook prepared a special treat for us. Snails in garlic and wine, with saffron rice. The snails came from the local cliffs. A big variety as thick as a child’s arm. But let’s face it, snails are just slugs with a hat on.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.”

244. “There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Best she remember me as seven and not see me now.”

245. “Best she remember me as seven and not see me now.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “A consequence of boredom is that a man is forced to look either to the future or the past, or sideways into his imagination.”

246. “A consequence of boredom is that a man is forced to look either to the future or the past, or sideways into his imagination.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other.”

247. “Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “But now I thought of Father, and it felt good to know I could still feel fear.”

248. “But now I thought of Father, and it felt good to know I could still feel fear.”

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Mark Lawrence Quote: “Give an inch, give any single man any single inch and the next thing you hear will be, ‘One more, Jorg, one more.’ And in the end what you love will burn.”

249. “Give an inch, give any single man any single inch and the next thing you hear will be, ‘One more, Jorg, one more.’ And in the end what you love will burn.”

— Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence Quote: “If it offends you. Stop me.”

250. “If it offends you. Stop me.”

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