Top 500 Robert Jordan Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.”

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

103. “Hardness shatters; strength endures.”

— Robert Jordan

104. “If you tried to solve every problem yourself, you ended by solving none.”

— Robert Jordan

105. “Always plan ahead, Lini used to say, but worry too hard over next year, and you can trip over tomorrow.”

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

110. “The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We’ve become what we needed to become.” Perrin.”

— Robert Jordan

111. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

113. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

121. “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

122. “May we see the sun rise together, shade of my heart.”

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

124. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

128. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

131. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

135. “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

136. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

140. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

144. “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

145. “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

146. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan