Explore Quotes by Robert Jordan

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!

A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

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

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

hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Should and would build no bridges.

A pig painted gold is still a pig.

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.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar, and wanted so badly to fly through the sky as the eagles did. The cub who hopped and jumped and leaped until he could leap higher than any other wolf, who never lost the cub's yearning to soar through the sky. [...] Something crashed into his head, and as he fell, he did not know if it was Hopper or himself who died.

A secret spoken finds wings.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.