Terry Goodkind Quotes

I am who I am; no more, no less.

~ Terry Goodkind

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

~ Terry Goodkind

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

~ Terry Goodkind

That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

~ Terry Goodkind

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

~ Terry Goodkind

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

~ Terry Goodkind

I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

~ Terry Goodkind

His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling.He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death.

~ Terry Goodkind

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

~ Terry Goodkind

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

~ Terry Goodkind

Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing. At least you are smart enough to question. Think of how easy it is to believe, for people who don't question, who don't even know how to question. For most people, it's not the truth that is important, it's the cause. Rahl is intelligent; he has given them a cause.

~ Terry Goodkind

Fear triggers need, need powers sincerity. Sincerity is the required element.

~ Terry Goodkind

...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

~ Terry Goodkind

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

~ Terry Goodkind

If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so.

~ Terry Goodkind

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.

~ Terry Goodkind

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

~ Terry Goodkind

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

~ Terry Goodkind

Richard looked up at the beautiful, big pines spreading over them, illuminated in the firelight. A spark of understanding lit in his mind. He saw the branches stretched out with murderous intent in a years-long struggle to reach the sunlight and dispatch its neighbors with its shade. Success would give space for its offspring, many of which would also shrivel in the shade of the parent. Several close neighbors of the big pine were withered and weak, victims all. It was true. The design of nature was success by murder.

~ Terry Goodkind

...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

~ Terry Goodkind

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

~ Terry Goodkind

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

~ Terry Goodkind

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

~ Terry Goodkind

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.

~ Terry Goodkind

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

~ Terry Goodkind

Cara waggled a hand over the two of them. It works better with your clothes off.Richard frowned. His voice came as a hoarse croak. What?She seemed mystified by the question. I believe you will find such things work better without clothes. She put her hands to her hips. I thought you would know at least that much.

~ Terry Goodkind

Cara, in the lead, came to a halt beside them, looking from one to the other. Still with the clothes, Lord Rahl?

~ Terry Goodkind

The foundations of some formerly strong lands became so riddled with termites of diminished purpose, so decayed with the decadence of smug moderation, and so emaciated with the vacillating aims of appears, that even when they saw the enemy coming and did resist, they were easily toppled when the Imperial Order finally pushed.

~ Terry Goodkind

Nicci looked up at Kahlan. “Knives are not my talent.” “It’s not hard,” Kahlan said as she pressed the handle into Nicci’s hand. “When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don’t like.

~ Terry Goodkind

Life is not about fulfilling a destiny. Your life has no destiny but what you make of it. And this is what I want to make of it. Barracus also told me to live the life that only I can live. He told me to have the courage to take up that calling. He was asking me to choose my destiny. Prophecy is not only about destiny, but the balance of free will. Becoming a Confessor is my calling. But it's not pre-ordained. It's a chance, a fork in the road of my life. I have to have the courage to take it on of my free will. In that way, the balance of prophecy and free will is the magic of the future.

~ Terry Goodkind

Your destiny is to find the truth.

~ Terry Goodkind

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

~ Terry Goodkind

This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.

~ Terry Goodkind

As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life.

~ Terry Goodkind

Only those you trust can betray you.

~ Terry Goodkind

Anger is a shield for the power of the sword's magic, so that helped.

~ Terry Goodkind

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

~ Terry Goodkind

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

~ Terry Goodkind

Eliminate the tyranny of magic from mankind.

~ Terry Goodkind

...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.

~ Terry Goodkind