Robert Jordan Quotes

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

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

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

~ Robert Jordan

Til shade is gone, til water is goneInto the shadow with teeth baredScreaming defiance with the last breathTo spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.

~ Robert Jordan

One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.

~ Robert Jordan

Death comes to us all, we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

~ Robert Jordan

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

~ Robert Jordan

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

Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.

~ Robert Jordan

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

There is some delight in ale and wineAnd some in girls with ankles fineBut my delight, yes always mineIs to dance with Jak O’ the ShadowsWe will toss the dice however they fallAnd snuggle the girls be they short or tallThen follow Lord Mat whenever he callsTo dance with Jak O’ the Shadows.

~ Robert Jordan

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

~ Robert Jordan

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

~ Robert Jordan

I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

~ Robert Jordan

If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.

~ Robert Jordan

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

~ Robert Jordan

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

~ Robert Jordan

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

~ Robert Jordan

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

~ Robert Jordan

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

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

~ Robert Jordan

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

~ Robert Jordan

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

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

~ Robert Jordan

What did you spend so much time talking about with Ila? If you weren’t dancing with that long-legged fellow, you were talking to her like it was some kind of secret.”“Ila was giving me advice on being a woman,” Egwene replied absently. He began laughing, and she gave him a hooded, dangerous look that he failed to see.“Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.”“That,” Egwene said, “is probably why you make such a bad job of it.

~ Robert Jordan

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

~ Robert Jordan

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

~ Robert Jordan

In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.

~ Robert Jordan

Who knows a woman's heart? Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.

~ Robert Jordan

They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for not being there when he was needed. Not that they would admit he was needed, even then, not them. Raise a hand to help and you were interfering, do nothing and you were an un-trustworthy wastrel.

~ Robert Jordan

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

~ Robert Jordan

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 Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

~ Robert Jordan

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.

~ Robert Jordan

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

~ Robert Jordan

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

Oh, how long were the days of a man.When he strode upon the broken land.He sailed as far as a man could steer.And he never wished to lose his fear.For the fear of man is a thing untold.It keeps him safe, and it proves him bold!Don’t let fear make you cease to strive,for that fear it proves you remain alive!I will walk this broken road,and I will carry a heavy load!So come at me with your awful lies,I’m a man of truth and I’ll meet your eyes!

~ Robert Jordan

I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer.

~ Robert Jordan

I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run.

~ Robert Jordan

Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of what we had lost. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.

~ Robert Jordan