Top 500 Robert Jordan Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.”

— Robert Jordan

252. “The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died.”

— Robert Jordan

253. “Remember the flame, lad, and the void.” It was an odd thing Tam had taught him. Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it – fear, hate, anger – until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything.”

— Robert Jordan

254. “Dance with her, and she will forgive much. Dance well, and she will forgive anything.”

— Robert Jordan

255. “The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.”

— Robert Jordan

256. “To lead is neither to push or pull.”

— Robert Jordan

257. “Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn’t mean it has to be bad. Even if it’s something you are sure you would never have chosen in a hundred years. ‘Better ten days of love than years of regretting,’ ” she quoted.”

— Robert Jordan

258. “In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes. That’s enough for anyone to know.”

— Robert Jordan

259. “Whatever the Dark One wants, I oppose, so hear this and know it true. Before I let the Dark One have you, I will destroy you myself.”

— Robert Jordan

260. “Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it – fear, hate, anger – until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything.”

— Robert Jordan

261. “Do not let my expression dampen your good humor,” Talmanes said, tucking his pipe away. “Nor let it bother you that we are fighting at the end of the world, that our armies are grossly outnumbered, and that if we lose, our very souls will be destroyed by the Dark Lord of all evil.” “Sorry, my Lord.” “That was a joke.” Dennel blinked. “That?” “Yes.” “That was a joke.” “Yes.” “You have an interesting sense of humor, my Lord,” Dennel said.”

— Robert Jordan

262. “The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule. -chant from a children’s game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age.”

— Robert Jordan

263. “The key to leadership is in the rippling waves.”

— Robert Jordan

264. “Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.”

— Robert Jordan

265. “Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked.”

— Robert Jordan

266. “Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it came.”

— Robert Jordan

267. “In the last, lorn fight ’gainst the fall of long night, the mountains stand guard, and the dead shall be ward, for the grave is no bar to my call.”

— Robert Jordan

268. “He said the Dark One intended to blind the Eye of the World, and slay the Great Serpent, kill time itself.”

— Robert Jordan

269. “Letting emotions go clouds judgment for a moment, but holding them in clouds it always. Just be sure you do not release them too often, or when it is best to keep control of them.”

— Robert Jordan

270. “A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what’s inside first.”

— Robert Jordan

271. “As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.”

— Robert Jordan

272. “Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.”

— Robert Jordan

273. “Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.”

— Robert Jordan

274. “Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.”

— Robert Jordan

275. “Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess.”

— Robert Jordan

276. “Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.”

— Robert Jordan

277. “The difference between you and Cadsuane is that you actually care about me. She only cares about my place in her plans. She wants me to be part of the Final battle. You want me to live. For that, you have my thanks. Dream on my behalf, Nynaeve. Dream for things I no longer can.”

— Robert Jordan

278. “You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.”

— Robert Jordan

279. “And at the end of every life, as he lay dying, as he drew his final breath, a voice whispered in his ear. I have won again, Lews Therin. Flicker.”

— Robert Jordan

280. “I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it’s worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.”

— Robert Jordan

281. “Tuon looked at him, squatting there by the map, moving his fingers over its surface, and suddenly she saw him in a new light. A buffoon? No. A lion stuffed into a horse-stall might look like a peculiar joke, but a lion on the high plains was something very different. Toy was loose on the high plains, now. She felt a chill. What sort of man had she entangled herself with? After all this time, she realized, she had hardly a clue.”

— Robert Jordan

282. “If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.”

— Robert Jordan

283. “Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.”

— Robert Jordan

284. “A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf’s eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.”

— Robert Jordan

285. “There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.”

— Robert Jordan

286. “Take what you want, and pay for it.”

— Robert Jordan

287. “It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.”

— Robert Jordan

288. “The flame and the void are about center,” Tam said. “And about peace. I would teach it to each and every person in this land, soldier or not, if I could.”

— Robert Jordan

289. “Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.”

— Robert Jordan

290. “We are dead men, Lews Therin murmured. Dead men should be quiet in their graves, but they never are.”

— Robert Jordan

291. “All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.”

— Robert Jordan

292. “There was a limit to how many insults a man could swallow in silence.”

— Robert Jordan

293. “She understood his eyes, colder than winter’s heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn’t make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.”

— Robert Jordan

294. “When you die, people begin to forget, who you were and what you did, or tried to do. Everybody dies eventually, and everybody is forgotten, eventually, but there’s no bloody point dying before your time comes.”

— Robert Jordan

295. “When you have never known a thing except to dream, it becomes more than a talisman.”

— Robert Jordan

296. “We come, brother. We come, Young Bull.”

— Robert Jordan

297. “I may be a fool, but I intend to be a live fool.”

— Robert Jordan

298. “And it was written that no hand but his should wield the Sword held in the Stone, but he did draw it out, like fire in his hand, and his glory did burn the world. Thus did it begin. Thus do we sing his Rebirth. Thus do we sing the beginning.”

— Robert Jordan

299. “He’s not a total idiot. In fact, he has a good head on his shoulders. He thinks like a woman, most of the time.”

— Robert Jordan

300. “Do not cut off your ears because you do not like your earrings.”

— Robert Jordan