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Robert Jordan Quotes

Total quotes: 22
“If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.”
— Robert Jordan, A Crown of Swords
Tagged: Knowledge, Contentment
“Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.”
— Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
Tagged: Life, Dreams, Death
“Always plan for the worst, child, that way all your surprises are pleasant ones.”
— Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn
Tagged: plan, worst, Surprises
“We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.”
— Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
Tagged: Fear, Courage, Bravery, strength
“He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.”
— Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light
Tagged: Wind, Soul
“Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.”
— Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight
Tagged: Pain, alive, Life, Motivational, Growth
“In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.”
— Robert Jordan, A Crown of Swords
Tagged: Land, Cruelty, laugh, Weeping, Life
“Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.”
— Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn
Tagged: Death, Choice, Death and Life
“Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.”
— Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt
Tagged: Women, Unsaid feeling, trouble, Problem
“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
— Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
Tagged: Death, grateful, Life, Now, present
“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”
— Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt
Tagged: rule, manhood
“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”
— Robert Jordan, New Spring: The Novel
Tagged: Expectation, Drowning, Sea
“Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.”
— Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
Tagged: Woman, Friend, Enemy, Lover
“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”
— Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
Tagged: Price, Worth, Value
“We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
We ran to the sounds of the thunder.
We danced among the lightning bolts,
and tore the world asunder.”
— Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn
Tagged: strength, Courage, Power
“Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”
— Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
Tagged: Run, Fight, Courage, Rest
“You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.”
— Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising
Tagged: Love, heart, Journey
“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”
— Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt
Tagged: Woman, Men, Loyalty
“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”
— Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
Tagged: Hate, Love, Unconditional Love, Happiness, Choice
“A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.”
— Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
Tagged: Trust, Fool, Life
“I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement.”
— Robert Jordan, The Gathering Storm
Tagged: insults, Stupid, stupidity
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
— Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, Book 5)
Tagged: Bounce Back, Resilience, broken, Life, survive
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