Top 500 Robert Jordan Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn’t mean it has to be bad.”

— Robert Jordan

402. “The Light save me from men who think with the hair on their chests.”

— Robert Jordan

403. “Domon would learn; even when a woman needed help, if she did not want it, she made you pay for giving it.”

— Robert Jordan

404. “The only people I ever met who were sensible all the time were so boring that watching them could put you to sleep.”

— Robert Jordan

405. “Women were always happy for a chance to educate a boy when he was young; Mat thought they assumed they could educate him out of becoming a man if they tried hard enough.”

— Robert Jordan

406. “There were questions one asked, and questions one did not. That was strong custom. And friendship.”

— Robert Jordan

407. “I expect you will not lack for company after I go. Just remember that some women see a man with their hearts, while others see no more than a bauble to wear, no different than a necklace or a bracelet. Remember that i will come back, and I am one who sees with her heart.”

— Robert Jordan

408. “There was a difference between being proud of a grand fireplace in your hall and walking into the flames.”

— Robert Jordan

409. “The only rules he wanted to remember were “never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars” and “never gamble without knowning a back way out.”

— Robert Jordan

410. “Once you catch a disease and survive, you can’t get it again.”

— Robert Jordan

411. “Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.”

— Robert Jordan

412. “Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.”

— Robert Jordan

413. “If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.”

— Robert Jordan

414. “With experience comes a determination to be set in your ways, to avoid new experiences.”

— Robert Jordan

415. “I’ve come to give you your gift back, Mordeth,” Cauthon whispered. “I consider our debt paid in full.”

— Robert Jordan

416. “Women lied to get a man into bed, and they lied worse once they had him there.”

— Robert Jordan

417. “Women could compress a great deal into one look.”

— Robert Jordan

418. “There was nothing a woman would not tell you if you kissed her enough.”

— Robert Jordan

419. “A man can get killed in there.”

— Robert Jordan

420. “You never could tell what a man would do when he was drunk, even if that man was your own self.”

— Robert Jordan

421. “If you don’t know everything, you must go on with what you do know.”

— Robert Jordan

422. “Afterwards, we will do as we must. As we do now.”

— Robert Jordan

423. “Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.”

— Robert Jordan

424. “Wildfire did not run through dry woods as fast as gossip ran through women.”

— Robert Jordan

425. “To believe a thing is not to make it true.”

— Robert Jordan

426. “That had the irritating sound of an old saying.”

— Robert Jordan

427. “That was the trouble with the best of men. They always thought they were doing the right thing.”

— Robert Jordan

428. “Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.”

— Robert Jordan

429. “I’ve stayed with you this long, Rand. Why would I stop now?” Loial.”

— Robert Jordan

430. “What does finding the Horn count if I abandon Egwene to this? If I did that, the Horn couldn’t save me. The Creator couldn’t save me. I would damn myself.”

— Robert Jordan

431. “Some people thought scars a sign of toughness. It seemed to Perrin that fewer scars meant that you knew what you were doing.”

— Robert Jordan

432. “You’re not my enemy, but your Empire is.”

— Robert Jordan

433. “One of the first rules he’d learned in life was to never fight a man when you had an equal chance of losing.”

— Robert Jordan

434. “Light, women would believe anything about a man so long as it was bad. And the worse it was, the more they had to talk about it.”

— Robert Jordan

435. “Being a soldier is about keeping your terror in check.”

— Robert Jordan

436. “I may lead you wrong now and then, but in the end, you can be sure that I’m always a safe bet.”

— Robert Jordan

437. “A man who thinks all day about the catch he missed because of stormy weather ends up wasting time when the sky is clear.”

— Robert Jordan

438. “You never escape the traps you spin yourself.”

— Robert Jordan

439. “He has forgotten how to laugh except in bitterness; there are no tears left in him. Unless he finds laughter and tears again, the world faces disaster. He.”

— Robert Jordan

440. “He pushed a hand inside the blankets to feel her cheek, her shoulder. Trickles of water ran across her face as her hair melted. He was cold, but she was ice. She needed every scrap of warmth he could find for her... His sense of touch, enhanced by the Void and saidin, soaked in the feel of her. Her skin made silt feel rough.”

— Robert Jordan

441. “Its time to role the dice.”

— Robert Jordan

442. “It’s one of the things men are for, taking the blame. They usually deserve it, even if you don’t know exactly how.”

— Robert Jordan

443. “Rand sent us away to search for an enemy,” he bellowed. “We return to him having found allies. Onward, to the Last Battle!” Only.”

— Robert Jordan

444. “That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the hunt. Could he do the same? Allow himself to be consumed when needed, yet keep balance in other parts of his life?”

— Robert Jordan

445. “An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.”

— Robert Jordan

446. “Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.”

— Robert Jordan

447. “If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they’ll land.”

— Robert Jordan

448. “Feel it. Know it. Be it. You and the bud are the same. You are one. You are the bud.”

— Robert Jordan

449. “You can ask or demand anything of me, but never to let you die without trying to save you. The day you die, I die.”

— Robert Jordan

450. “It was easier to ask forgiveness, than permission.”

— Robert Jordan