Top 300 Terry Goodkind Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “I don’t think I could have written what I did any earlier.”

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102. “The greatest harm can result from the best intentions – Zeddicus Zu’l Zorander.”

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103. “Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young.” – Cara.”

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104. “Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner’s strength.”

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105. “Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.”

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106. “Fate does not seek our consent.”

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107. “That’s what friends are for-to be strong for you when you need a moment to find your own strength.”

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108. “You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed.”

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109. “Each day lived,” Richard said, “is one less of our limited number of days gone forever. Time therefore has relevance and meaning to us. Life is precious, so time is precious. Time is how we put value on things such as love. We give our most precious commodity, our time-a part of our lives-over to those we love.”

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110. “Your life is yours alone, so rise up and live it.”

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111. “To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan.”

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112. “Evil grants no mercy, and to attempt to appease it is nothing more than a piecemeal surrender to it. Surrender to evil is slavery at best, death at worse. -Richard Rahl.”

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113. “Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light.”

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114. “If you make enough predictions, eventually you will get one right, but that is by accident, not design.”

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115. “You can’t help how you feel and I understand that. Sometimes a person can’t talk their heart out of how it feels, despite how hard you try.”

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116. “Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.”

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117. “Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours.”

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118. “Though she was ungifted, she could clearly feel the power of the magic the sword now possessed. It was power unlike anything she ever imagined. It churned the way the storm had. It held more power than the storm had. It was fury and rage and love and life all folded together over and over, blending them into the finest layers of something new, something remarkable. This was now a weapon unlike any other, more than any other.”

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119. “Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul.”

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120. “I felt like I’d been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.”

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121. “Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created a new.”

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122. “Do you know, Richard, that it’s the weight of one flake of snow that is one too many, and causes an avalanche? Without that one, last flake, the catastrophe would not happen. When using magic, you must know which is the one snowflake too many before you add its weight. The avalanche will be out of all proportion to what you think the weight of that flake could invoke.”

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123. “In this world, everyone must die. None of us has any choice in that. Our choice is how we wish to live.”

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124. “Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.”

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125. “Wizard’s First Rule: people are stupid, they believe what they want to believe.”

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126. “I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.”

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127. “People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.”

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128. “I wish people had half the honor of dragons.”

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129. “Since the dawn of man, there have always been people bent on harming others. There have been periods of peace and enlightenment, and there have been dark times, but through it all, mankind survived. That cycle has repeated itself over and over. It wasn’t always easy, and despite those who would have it otherwise, life went on.”

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130. “He knew, though, that there was no such thing as fair in life. Existence had no agenda. Life simply existed. It was up to them to fight for life to be worthwhile and good if that was what they wanted.”

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131. “She’s the first thing in my mind when I wake and the last thing in my mind before I sleep. I’ve never felt like this before, Zedd, never felt this alone before.”

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132. “Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors.”

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133. “Such beliefs were born in man’s willful refusal to use his mind, in his lust for the unearned, his wish for success without effort. Such beliefs were the embodiment of hatred for all that was good, hatred for virtue, hatred for value. It was ultimately a hatred of themselves, of life, of existence. It was that hate, that dedication to death, that was the true manifestation of evil.”

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134. “The most important rule there is, the Wizard’s Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.”

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135. “As long as we have choices in life and use our heads, there is always the possibility of turning around the worst situation.”

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136. “There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don’t think so, and the cat doesn’t think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.”

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137. “The truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies.”

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138. “Truth is hard to sell; it gives no sense of purpose. It is simply truth.”

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139. “Safety is only an illusion when evil is on the hunt. I can’t stand by and watch. I have to act. It isn’t easy to absolve one’s self of guilt.”

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140. “Save your anger for the enemy. Here it will do you no good; there, it can overcome fear. Use this time now to teach your sword what to do, so later it will do it without conscious thought.”

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141. “I’m going to do the worst possible thing I could do to you and your people – what my grandfather would have done to you. “I’m going to leave you all to suffer the consequences of your own actions.”

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142. “If we timidly submit to tyranny, we will never have the chance to test our wings.”

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143. “You can never stop all wrongdoing, but if you don’t punish it, then it proliferates until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.”

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144. “A Grace connected creating the World of life, and the world of the dead in pathways of magic.”

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145. “Maybe I would like to see beauty again before I die.” “Bah. What would you carve? What would you see before you die? What could be worth your life?” “Man’s nobility – the most sublime form of beauty.”

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146. “Death, though, was part of life. There could not be life without death always shadowing it.”

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147. “Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.”

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148. “Killing is a terrible thing, too. I hate killing. But killing isn’t necessarily wrong.”

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149. “Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.”

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150. “In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.”

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