Top 500 Robert Jordan Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Robert Jordan

303. “Suddenly he grinned, but his grin was as dark as a scowl; his eyes sparkled merrily, laughing at the foot of the gallows.”

— Robert Jordan

304. “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

305. “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

306. “Thieves are always the most careful of their purses.”

— Robert Jordan

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

— Robert Jordan

308. “Tuon’s eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready to throw. Then she looked over her shoulder.”

— Robert Jordan

309. “Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat’s head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?”

— Robert Jordan

310. “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

311. “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

312. “A man without trust is a man without life.”

— Robert Jordan

313. “Only a fool thinks a lion or a woman can truly be tamed.”

— Robert Jordan

314. “There must be a difference in what you saw, it seemed to him, depending on whether you sought adventure or had it forced on you.”

— Robert Jordan

315. “At the end of time, when the many become one, the last storm shall gather its angry winds to destroy a land already dying. And at its center, the blind man shall stand upon his own grave. There he shall see again, and weep for what has been wrought.”

— Robert Jordan

316. “Greed nibbled every man, and strict “rules” could be bent if opportunity walked past and winked suggestively enough. Mat.”

— Robert Jordan

317. “All things change. Until we wake, the dream drifts on the wind.”

— Robert Jordan

318. “Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he. Lan: He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you’re dead.”

— Robert Jordan

319. “She grimaced, remembering one incarnation when she and he had been forced to grow old together, peacefully. Most boring life she’d ever known, though at the time – ignorant of her grander part in the Pattern – she’d been happy with it.”

— Robert Jordan

320. “Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear’s mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn’t die?”

— Robert Jordan

321. “We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That’s Aviendha. Don’t look at her crosswise, or she’ll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake.”

— Robert Jordan

322. “The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.”

— Robert Jordan

323. “You are a fine judge of character, child. You must have done well as the Wisdom of your village. It was Laras who went to Sheriam and demanded to know how long you three are to be kept to the dirtiest and hardest work, without a turn at lighter. She said she would not be a party to breaking any woman’s health or spirit, no matter what I said. A fine judge of character, child.”

— Robert Jordan

324. “The grave is no bar to my call.”

— Robert Jordan

325. “When you have a wolf by the ears, it’s as hard to let go as to hold on.”

— Robert Jordan

326. “My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.”

— Robert Jordan

327. “One of the Prophecies says that the Stone of Tear will never fall until the People of the Dragon come to the Stone. Another says the Stone will never fall till the Sword That Cannot Be Touched is wielded by the Dragon’s hand.”

— Robert Jordan

328. “Respect is a thing earned and not demanded, Perrin Aybara.”

— Robert Jordan

329. “At dawn the day was born, just as twilight gave birth to night, but at dawn, night died, and at twilight, day.”

— Robert Jordan

330. “Almost ten years past now that Edeyn had watched him ride away from Fal Moran, and been gone when he returned, yet he still could recall her face more clearly than that of any woman who had shared his bed since. He was no longer a boy, to think that she loved him just because she had chosen to become his first lover, yet there was an old saying among Malkieri men. Your carneira wears part of your soul as a ribbon in her hair forever. Custom strong as law made it so.”

— Robert Jordan

331. “When the honey’s out of the comb, there’s no putting it back.”

— Robert Jordan

332. “People did not respond to anger. They did not respond to demands. Silence and questions, these were far more effective.”

— Robert Jordan

333. “It’s not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn’t evil, it’s just incredibly stupid.”

— Robert Jordan

334. “I’ve seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.”

— Robert Jordan

335. “Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.”

— Robert Jordan

336. “Why do they use it like that? Peace.” “When you have never known a thing except to dream,” Lan replied, heeling Mandarb forward, “it becomes more than a talisman.”

— Robert Jordan

337. “Some women,” Dyelin murmured into her wine, “can make a fish bite by crooking a finger, Lady Birgitte. Other women have to drag their bait all over the pond.”

— Robert Jordan

338. “Whitecloak Questioners assume you’re guilty before they start, and they have only one sentence for that kind of guilt. They don’t care about finding the truth; they think they know that already. All they go after with their hot irons and pincers is a confession. Best you remember some secrets are too dangerous for saying aloud, even when you think you know who hears.”

— Robert Jordan

339. “A man doesn’t choose to be an idiot, but he does choose to be loyal.”

— Robert Jordan

340. “The end is near,” Moridin said. “The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.”

— Robert Jordan

341. “The determination of a man set upon justice is a thing not lightly ignored.”

— Robert Jordan

342. “Truth almost always did come out in the end, but by the end, truth was often so wrapped around with rumors and speculation and absolute lies that most people never did believe it.”

— Robert Jordan

343. “How do you know when a woman wants to kill you?” Rand mused. “When she knows your name?” Dobraine.”

— Robert Jordan

344. “A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.”

— Robert Jordan

345. “It looks a good plan to me. As good as any till the arrows start flying.”

— Robert Jordan

346. “She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.”

— Robert Jordan

347. “Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don’t control it.”

— Robert Jordan

348. “A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.”

— Robert Jordan

349. “Mia dovienya nesodhin soende.”

— Robert Jordan

350. “Jump in a hole without looking, and there’ll be a snake in it every time.”

— Robert Jordan