Top 500 Robert Jordan Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “You’re not my enemy, but your Empire is.”

— Robert Jordan

202. “Why? Rand thought with wonder. Because each time we live, we get to love again.”

— Robert Jordan

203. “The secret, it turned out, had not been to harden himself to the point of breaking. It had not been to become numb. It had been to walk in pain, like the pain of the wounds at his side, and accept that pain as part of him. Two.”

— Robert Jordan

204. “Men listened closer to calm tones than to the loudest shouts, so long as firmness and certainty accompanied the calm.”

— Robert Jordan

205. “Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.”

— Robert Jordan

206. “It was beyond unwise to enter battle angry. Anger narrowed the vision and made for foolish choices.”

— Robert Jordan

207. “Life is a dream, and everyone wakes eventually.”

— Robert Jordan

208. “Image perception makes a big difference. That’s one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff – that’s necessary. But the image that you project is also key. Don’t forget that.”

— Robert Jordan

209. “Logic is always applicable to the real world,” Miyasi said dismissively, “but only a novice would think the real world can be applied to logic. Ideals must be first principles. Not the mundane world.”

— Robert Jordan

210. “Quite often, when a woman was agitated, she tried to soothe others whether they required soothing or not.”

— Robert Jordan

211. “Being in charge isn’t always about telling people what to do. Sometimes, it’s about knowing when to step out of the way of people who know what they’re doing.”

— Robert Jordan

212. “The more power a man held, the more likely he was to be an idiot with it.”

— Robert Jordan

213. “When you ask questions, Lini used to say, then you have to hear the answers whether you want to or not.”

— Robert Jordan

214. “This is it, Egwene,” Mat said. “Take a deep breath, a last pull on the brandy, or burn your final pinch of tabac. Have a good look at the ground before you, as it’s soon going to be covered in blood. In an hour, we’ll be in the thick of it. The Light watch over us all.”

— Robert Jordan

215. “Tai’shar Manetheren,” he said softly. Nynaeve’s mouth fell open, then curled into a tremulous smile. Sudden tears glistened in her eyes as she spun to face him, her face joyous. He smiled back at her, and there was nothing cold in his eyes. Elayne.”

— Robert Jordan

216. “A secret spoken finds wings.”

— Robert Jordan

217. “Well, the sword that could not be broken was shattered in the end, sheepherder, but it fought the Shadow to the last. There is one rule, above all others, for being a man.”

— Robert Jordan

218. “When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.”

— Robert Jordan

219. “If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.”

— Robert Jordan

220. “Weep for Manetheren. Weep for what is lost forever.”

— Robert Jordan

221. “Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. So many duties. Egwene.”

— Robert Jordan

222. “If you ever meet a Malkieri,” Noal said, “you tell him Jain Farstrider died clean.” “I will, Jain,” Mat said. “May the light hold you.” Noal.”

— Robert Jordan

223. “We’ll make a home,” Lan said. “The Shadow defeated, Nynaeve and I will reclaim Malkier. We’ll make the fields bloom again, cleanse the lakes. Green pastures. No more Trollocs to fight. Children to ride on your back, old friend. You can spend your days in peace, eating apples and having your pick of mares.” It.”

— Robert Jordan

224. “Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.”

— Robert Jordan

225. “One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.”

— Robert Jordan

226. “The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.”

— Robert Jordan

227. “To marry the Daughter of the Nine Moons!” “To die and live again, and live once more a part of what was!” “To give up half the light of the world to save the world!”

— Robert Jordan

228. “The wheel of a man’s life. No mercy. No pity.”

— Robert Jordan

229. “Peel the apple in your hand, girl, not the one on the tree, Lini’s thin voice seemed to whisper in her ear. Tears are for after; they just waste time before.”

— Robert Jordan

230. “Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.”

— Robert Jordan

231. “He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.”

— Robert Jordan

232. “A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.”

— Robert Jordan

233. “Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.”

— Robert Jordan

234. “Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.”

— Robert Jordan

235. “The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.”

— Robert Jordan

236. “Anger made for hasty decisions and rash words that sometimes were hard to take back.”

— Robert Jordan

237. “And so we begin the game that cannot be won,” Thom said, sliding the knife back into its sheath. “Courage to strengthen,” Noal whispered, stepping forward, holding up a lantern with a flickering flame. “Fire to blind. Music to dazzle. Iron to bind.” “And Matrim Cauthon,” Mat added. “To bloody even the odds.” He stepped through the doorway. Light.”

— Robert Jordan

238. “A Warder once told me Trollocs call the Aiel Waste ‘the Dying Ground.’ I mean to make them give that name to the Two Rivers.”

— Robert Jordan

239. “An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.”

— Robert Jordan

240. “You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you’re trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.”

— Robert Jordan

241. “It’s never over, al’Thor. The battle’s never done.”

— Robert Jordan

242. “Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly.”

— Robert Jordan

243. “There’s an old saying in the Two Rivers” Rand said dryly. “‘The louder a man tells you he’s honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.‘” Another said, “The fox often offers to give the duck its pond.”

— Robert Jordan

244. “Lan shook his head sightly “He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you’re dead.”

— Robert Jordan

245. “If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.”

— Robert Jordan

246. “Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.”

— Robert Jordan

247. “If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.”

— Robert Jordan

248. “I am Rand al’Thor!” he called, so his voice rang through the chamber. “I am the Dragon Reborn!”

— Robert Jordan

249. “To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.”

— Robert Jordan

250. “Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.”

— Robert Jordan