Top 160 R.A. Salvatore Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’ve always been a fighter. If you tell me I can’t, I’ll die trying to prove you wrong.”

— R.A. Salvatore

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2. “Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do’Urden.”

— R.A. Salvatore

3. “Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. – Drizzt Do’Urden.”

— R.A. Salvatore

4. “No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.”

— R.A. Salvatore

5. “Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.”

— R.A. Salvatore

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6. “Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.”

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7. “Artemis Entreri: Do not underestimate Jarlaxle. Many have; they all are dead.”

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8. “Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen emey, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength- Drizzt Do’Urden.”

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9. “Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.”

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10. “I live my life with hope, always hope, that the future will be better than the present, but only as long as I work to make it so.”

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11. “I don’t have to prove my worth and value to any but those I love, and that I do by being who I am, with confidence that those I love appreciate the good and accept the bad. Does anything else really matter?”

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12. “We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.”

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13. “It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”

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14. “A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.”

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15. “The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.”

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16. “I will always love you Drizzt Do’Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well, my love.”

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17. “We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.”

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18. “First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more. – Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do’Urden.”

— R.A. Salvatore

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19. “Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship.”

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20. “I am dying. Every day, with every breath I draw, I am closer to the end of my life. For we are born with a finite number of breaths, and each one I take edges the sunlight that is my life toward the inevitable dusk.”

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21. “I’ve spared with demons from the Nine Hells themselves, I shall barely break a sweat here today.”

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22. “Play for the day,” he told himself. “Win the day, each day, and so you will win the war.”

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23. “Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir.”

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24. “These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration. These were the friends who gave me my life.”

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25. “A sense of accomplishment. It is the most important ingredient in any rational being’s formula of happiness. It is the element that builds confidence and allows us to go on to other, greater tasks. It is the item that promotes a sense of self-worth, that allows any person to believe there is value in life itself, that gives a sense of purpose to bolster us as we face life’s unanswerable questions.”

— R.A. Salvatore

26. “The journey is more important than the goal, for while the goal might be worthwhile, the journey is, in fact, the thread of your life.”

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27. “There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon’s breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.”

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28. “There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.”

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29. “If you can quit, then quit. If you can’t quit, you’re a writer.”

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30. “We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.”

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31. “I’m trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.”

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32. “There is no greater shackle than self-deception. A man who denies his heart, either through fear of personal consequence – whether regarding physical jeopardy, or self-doubt, or simply of being ostracized – is not free. To go against your values and tenets, against that which you know is right and true, creates a prison stronger than adamantine bars and thick stone walls.”

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33. “To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy.”

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34. “Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.”

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35. “The finest leaders are those who listen more than they talk.”

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36. “It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.”

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37. “I don’t like the sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating. And it gets everywhere.”

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38. “There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked.”

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39. “How many people long for that “past, simpler, and better world,” I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?”

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40. “Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that “welcome” was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.”

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41. “I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.”

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42. “I know not yet where I hope to go, what challenges are left before me, but I do understand now that the important thing is to enjoy the process of getting there.”

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43. “I don’t desire glory. Glory brings fame, and fame brings jealousy, and jealousy brings danger.”

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44. “For what is a rational being if not a choice? And there can be no evil, nor any good, without intent.”

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45. “I’m a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.”

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46. “Nostalgia is possibly the greatest of the lies that we all tell ourselves. It is the glossing of the past to fit the sensibilities of the present. For some, it brings a measure of comfort, a sense of self and of source, but others, I fear, take these altered memories too far, and because of that, paralyze themselves to the realities about them.”

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47. “Never does a star grace this land with a poet’s light of twinkling mysteries, nor does the sun send to here its rays of warmth and life.”

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48. “The past no longer exists, and the future does not yet exist,” Morik reasoned. “So live in the present and enjoy it, my friend. Enjoy every moment.”

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49. “A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie.”

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50. “Only there, where virtue sits as judge, are heroes born.”

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