Robert Jordan Quotes

A flapping tongue can put you in the net instead of the fish.

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.

I’ll not have you bleeding to death on me. That would be just like you, to die and leave me the work of burying you. You have no consideration.

If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant.

Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.

A ship is alive, and he is like a man, with a true man’s heart. Treat him well and care for him properly, and he will fight for you against the worst sea. He will fight to keep you alive even after the sea has long since given him his own deathstroke. Neglect him, though, ignore the small warnings he gives of danger, and he will drown you in a flat sea beneath a cloudless sky.

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

It is better to guide people than try to hammer them into a line.

A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.

You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.

You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.

For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

As well you try to understand the sun, Perrin. It simply is, and it is not to be understood. You cannot live without it, but it exacts a price. So with women.

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.

No wine for me. Strange enough things happen when my head is clear. I want to know the difference.