Top 120 Raymond E. Feist Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other.”

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52. “It’s often said we take offense most in what we see of ourselves in others.”

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53. “The first love is the difficult love.”

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54. “Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. “ ‘Small acts partner small houses and small minds’.”

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55. “You learn something new every day, if you just stop to pay attention.”

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56. “People will often do imponderable things because of how they feel, not because of what they think.”

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57. “Your human gods love to present you with such riddles and challenges, or so it has seemed to me for most of my life... You often seem to prefer difficult choices when simple alternatives are available; it is a constant source of amazement to my kind.”

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58. “Love doesn’t demand; it accepts.” Mara to Kamilo.”

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59. “It takes a man of unusual character to openly confront his own shortcomings. It’s so much more convenient to blame others.”

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60. “You’ve learned something very young, Prince, something that even older men rarely understand. You’ve learned that fear isn’t a terrible-looking thing but something lovely and seductive.”

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61. “Warlords who fail in conducting war tend to fall from grace quickly.”

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62. “One of the problems with being my age is you look at everyone who is younger as children, and when everyone else around you is younger, it means you live in a universe of children. So you tend to scold more than is proper.”

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63. “The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them ‘outside’ of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.”

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64. “A hunt leader could not show fear, or let it linger in his stomach, for others would sense it soon enough, taste that fear and become possessed by it. They would hesitate when an order was given, and uncertainty would claim their life as readily as the blade of the enemy.”

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65. “Fear had driven two enemies into each other’s arms and he smiled at that thought. ‘They fear me more than they do each other and that is good’ he thought.”

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66. “You know what it is to laugh at death, Arutha. You’ll never be the same man again.”

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67. “I just pray I don’t have to work on you some day. Stitching together flesh that has no soul is bitter work.”

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68. “There is always a choice, though it is not always apparent.”

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69. “If I leave my computer, I’m probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.”

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70. “ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.”

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71. “Life is what happens, Magnus, no matter what you expect or want.”

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72. “My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer –.”

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73. “There are many ways to love someone. Sometimes we want to love so much we’re not too choosy about who we love. Other times we make love such a pure and noble thing no poor human can ever meet our vision. But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, ‘There is something about you I cherish.’ It doesn’t entail marriage, or even physical love. There’s love of parents, love of city or nation, love of life, and love of people. All different, all love.”

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74. “You see, there are few objective limits. What they teach you is useful, but never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.”

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75. “Tell them this: somehow our two worlds stand linked again by some dark power of Tsurani origin. It moves against the Kingdom. It is power beyond human understanding, perhaps power to challenge the gods themselves.”

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76. “I’m a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.”

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77. “It was something he had never quite understood about himself. He had seen thousands of men die in nearly ten years of war and could look on it at times with a near-total detachment, but an animal suffering – be it a horse or needra injured in battle, or the stag now dying – moved him deeply.”

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78. “Good,” said Creed. “I always like it when a captain has a plan; makes getting killed a lot less random.”

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79. “It is the single blackest shame in the memory of our race that one segment of our people utterly destroyed another. ‘But.”

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80. “One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.”

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81. “It was an interesting dilemma and with all such dilemmas an opportunity might emerge. ‘How best to turn this setback into an advantage,’ he wondered silently.”

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82. “Debts of friendship are not debts.”

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83. “What is he?’ ‘What would you have him be?”

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84. “What is life for?′ he asked rhetorically. ‘It’s a way to evolve thought. And what is thought for? It’s a way to be aware, a stage between the physical and the spiritual. And time? it’s a good way to keep things separated.”

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85. “Train those around you well, Pug. Make them powerful, but make them loving, generous men and women as well.”

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86. “Knowing what things are not is often as important as knowing what they are.”

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87. “The ways of the heart are complex.” He looked out at the ocean again. “The waves churn and break upon the rocks, Talon. So do human feelings. Passion can be a man’s undoing. With passion must come wisdom; otherwise, your enemies have a weapon to use against you.”

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88. “As my grandmother said, ‘Sorry won’t unbreak the eggs’. Just clean the mess and move on.”

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89. “Well, he thought, dwelling on past failures once you’d learned all there was to learn was just heaping futility on failure.”

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90. “Still, few things of worth are ever simple. Or easy.”

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91. “Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that’s the way I decided to go.”

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92. “Often I’ll try things that just won’t happen the way I’d like them to, so hearing that they’re not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.”

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93. “Of course we’ll be there.” After Amos left, Ghuda shook his head. In a sour tone he muttered, “Why are we going to Crydee, Ghuda? I haven’t the vaguest idea, Ghuda. Shall we go find Nakor, Ghuda? Certainly, Ghuda. Then shall we strangle him, Ghuda?” With a single nod of his head, he answered himself, “With great delight, Ghuda.”

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94. “All the way home, his wound pulsing with every hearbeat, he had cursed himself for a fool. How could he think she loved him? He had never been loved in his life, save perhaps by Erik and the other men who had served with him across the sea, and that was the love of comrades. He had never known the love of women, just their embrace. Twice he had found tears running down his face...”

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95. “Tragic to kill a friend in battle by mistake when there are so many enemies to go around.”

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96. “Whatever displeasure she felt was openly voiced, and quickly resolved, by either compromise or one partner’s acceptance of the other’s intractability.”

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97. “You can be as sharp-tongued as a viper, but you can also be as sweet as wild clover honey.”

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98. “The thought struck Dennis that a hundred years before he was even born Tinuva undoubtedly knew of the river. Again he realized just how ancient the elven race was and with it came the recognition of just how much they risked when facing battle: it wasn’t just a score of years in the balance, it was a score of decades.”

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99. “He remembered how his father had told him that when it snowed even humans could see the wind, and it was so. He watched as gusty eddies danced and flickered, a single flake pausing for a moment to hover before his eyes, a twirling crystal of light, the exhale of his warm breath causing it to dance away even as it melted.”

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100. “You know what they say: ‘Men have throats and daggers have sharp edges’.”

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