Top 500 Robert Jordan Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Hardness shatters; strength endures.”

— Robert Jordan

102. “A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.”

— Robert Jordan

103. “First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.”

— Robert Jordan

104. “What was the good of acting out fake stories? Why not go live a few stories of your own?”

— Robert Jordan

105. “Small courtesies were the lubricant of daily life.”

— Robert Jordan

106. “What you practice too often, you use without thinking.”

— Robert Jordan

107. “The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”

— Robert Jordan

108. “A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.”

— Robert Jordan

109. “Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.”

— Robert Jordan

110. “The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns. As.”

— Robert Jordan

111. “The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.”

— Robert Jordan

112. “An honorable man protects whoever needs protecting, but children above all, and women above men.”

— Robert Jordan

113. “Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”

— Robert Jordan

114. “I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn’t waste time raising a weak boy.”

— Robert Jordan

115. “If a sword had memory, it might be grateful to the forge fire, but never fond of it.”

— Robert Jordan

116. “Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.”

— Robert Jordan

117. “The Wheel of Time weaves the Pattern of the Ages, and lives are the threads it weaves. No one can tell how the thread of his own life will be woven into the Pattern, or how the thread of a people will be woven.”

— Robert Jordan

118. “But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.”

— Robert Jordan

119. “Death is light as a feather; duty, heavy as a mountain.”

— Robert Jordan

120. “There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.”

— Robert Jordan

121. “You have to have talent to some extent – I certainly hope I have talent – but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.”

— Robert Jordan

122. “I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement.”

— Robert Jordan

123. “It was about a hero who insisted with every breath that he was anything but a hero.”

— Robert Jordan

124. “Mashiara. Beloved of heart and soul, it meant, but a love lost, too. Lost beyond regaining.”

— Robert Jordan

125. “Life was only a dream, and all dreams had to end. Aiel.”

— Robert Jordan

126. “Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.”

— Robert Jordan

127. “You trouble me so, Rand al’Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.”

— Robert Jordan

128. “Relax, lad. Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”

— Robert Jordan

129. “And the Shadow fell upon the Land, and the World was riven stone from stone. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the World. The moon was as blood, and the sun was as ashes. The seas boiled, and the living envied the dead. All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.”

— Robert Jordan

130. “Never make a plan without knowing as much as you can of the enemy. Never be afraid to change your plans when you receive new information. Never believe you know everything. And never wait to know everything.”

— Robert Jordan

131. “When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You’re stunned, but you cannot hear enough.”

— Robert Jordan

132. “As my Lord says, my Lord’s leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me.”

— Robert Jordan

133. “What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn?”

— Robert Jordan

134. “We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.”

— Robert Jordan

135. “I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.”

— Robert Jordan

136. “A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.”

— Robert Jordan

137. “For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.”

— Robert Jordan

138. “He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!”

— Robert Jordan

139. “What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.”

— Robert Jordan

140. “I’m not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.”

— Robert Jordan

141. “The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.”

— Robert Jordan

142. “Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.”

— Robert Jordan

143. “Change what you can if it needs changing, but learn to live with what you can’t change.”

— Robert Jordan

144. “Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

— Robert Jordan

145. “It’s too late to change your mind after you’ve jumped off the cliff.”

— Robert Jordan

146. “It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.”

— Robert Jordan

147. “Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.”

— Robert Jordan

148. “From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.”

— Robert Jordan

149. “It was a simple truth; the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.”

— Robert Jordan

150. “A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.”

— Robert Jordan