Top 300 Terry Goodkind Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.”

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202. “Slaves, slaves to anything or anyone, despite how much they abhor it, will often cling to that slavery out of fear the alternative would be insufferable.”

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203. “I have to do this, Merrit. I trust you to take care with my life, but if I lose it in the attempt, then I will have died trying to save all life and I don’t want you to blame yourself. This is worth doing. I’d rather die trying to preserve the value of life than watch it all end because I failed to do what only I can.” – Magda Searus.”

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204. “Even a good person can be swept up with the sentiments of a crowd and come to hold perverse beliefs.”

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205. “That smile might have been on his lips, but it was not in his eyes.”

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206. “I love you, Kahlan. Never anyone before you, nor ever after. Only you.” His eyes said it even better.”

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207. “A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read one shelf at a time.”

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208. “Life could be brutal, but that such brutality did not define life or its purpose, and that the sexes were not rivals, but meant to share together in the work and joys of life.”

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209. “Leadership is a nurturing of those under your command.”

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210. “The truth has value.”

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211. “Baraccus had told her that while a number of wizards could make things, the same as the ungifted could make things, it was this component of artistic ability in creating new things that took to to another level and made the makers more than true prophets. Magda remembered the passion in his voice as he told her about such things. Making things was in his soul. Creating new things seemed to be his spark of life.”

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212. “If I was a nobody you wouldn’t be so eager to see me dead. Just like these people you know that I am devoted to the truth. That is why you want to eliminate me.” – Magda Searus.”

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213. “He wanted this to show the raw power of volition. The man and woman he carved were his refuge against his despair over his captivity. They embodied freedom of spirit. They embodied reason rising up to triumph.”

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214. “War Wizards don’t give up. They find a way around any obstacle, even if that way results in their own death. He called the way of the wizard the dance with death.”

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215. “People whose magic could affect others in an overt manner didn’t need to bite, he imagined, nor would they allow themselves to be held captive.”

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216. “You’ve a thing or two to learn, dear one, if you don’t know how important fussing is.”

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217. “Surprise was their greatest weapon. He didn’t want to give it up without a very good reason.”

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218. “She had never asked why it was right for her to be a slave to another’s desires, but not evil for them to enslave her. She was not contributing to the betterment of mankind, but was merely a servant to countless puling little tyrants. Evil was not one large entity, but a ceaseless torrent of small wrongs left unchallenged, until they festered into monsters.”

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219. “You envisioned the idea of a Confessor for the right reasons. Life is truth. Truth is Life. You wanted a way to seek truth. Such a cause, in the promotion of life, is noble.”

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220. “It’s easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth.”

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221. “We have people like that in our world, too. People who say that freedom is no longer practical, that we must surrender it for a greater common good.” “Fear them,” she whispered. “They are the heart of evil. They tolerate tyranny, excuse it, compromise with it. In so doing they always bring savagery and death upon the rest of us.”

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222. “Don’t try to fix the past, dear one – it can’t be done.”

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223. “Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.”

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224. “They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.”

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225. “Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing.”

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226. “Get your priorities straight, young man. When a victim is staring at a blade that has just plunged through his chest, the last thing on his mind is criticism about the lack of ornamentation on your hilt.”

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227. “To love another, you must first love yourself. Love yourself, Magda, so that you can love him. Love yourself enough to let your memories of me ease away from closing your heart. “Love yourself enough to know that you deserve happiness.”

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228. “We teach our children to help those in need because one day we might be the ones in need, and we can only hope to earn such help if we are worthy, if we are the kind who would give it and not just receive it. We believe in treating others as we would want to be treated.”

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229. “Confidence can be a dangerous thing. Fear can keep you safe, sometimes.”

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230. “Your loveliness is not a mask, layered over a rotten core. It blossoms from the beauty inside.”

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

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232. “There are times when there is no choice but to act immediately; even then it must be with your best judgment, using all your experience and everything you do know.”

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233. “I think old age is nature’s way of preparing us for death, making us more willing to take our leave of this world.”

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234. “We all have to die, Johnrock – every one of us. It is how we choose to live that matters. After all, it’s the only life each one of us will ever have, so how we live is of paramount importance.”

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235. “Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door.”

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236. “You are not struggling to rule, but to give others a chance at ruling their own lives. So stop ruling and let them live those lives.”

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237. “The power is neither evil not good; it simply exists. It is up to the mind of man to put it to use.”

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238. “Little things are a good place to start. Larger understanding is built on little things. We put those little things we learn together into larger concepts.”

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239. “Without delay, Tilly entered the ninth opening, a number that she knew from Baraccus had great meaning on things having to do with magic.”

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240. “You mean that it’s not only what he does that makes him dangerous, but also what he feels justified in doing?”

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241. “Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.”

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242. “Don’t make promises, because circumstances have a way of making you regret them.”

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243. “If an idea was sound, it had to have a life beyond a leader, or the leader had failed.”

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244. “He wanted to know things, not reveal them.”

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245. “You can’t expect to walk through life without stepping in the muck now and again. The important thing is to maintain your footing when you do, and not fall on your face and make it worse.”

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246. “Of all the people who came before us, Magda, you were the only one who represented truth. I want you to know that. – Councilman Sadler.”

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247. “Duty?” Kahlan wiped a hand across her face. “Harold, you can’t blindly follow that woman’s whim. The route to life and liberty exists only through reason. She may be queen, but reason can be your only true sovereign. To fail to use reason in this, to fail to think, is intellectual anarchy.”

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248. “Don’t give up the calling, Magda. Know yourself. Know what you are. Though few would admit it, even those on the council, I truly believe we all need you. – Councilman Sadler.”

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249. “I want you to use me to create a Confessor.”

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250. “Your forces will try to use shields, but I can tell you from experience that shields don’t work. Shields key off life. They have nothing to latch on to with the dead.”

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