Quotes from Raymond E. Feist

The faults we see in others never seem as dreadful as those we see in ourselves.

You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer?

What you remember, it's real. It doesn't matter how accurate your memory of something is, it is real to you. What you perceive as reality is reality.

But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.

Boys... You're all idiots" - Carlaine

Your destiny is now your own to forge as best as you may.

You know what it is to laugh at death, Arutha. You'll never be the same man again.

Immortality, power, dominance, all are illusions. Don't you see? We are simply pawns in a game beyond our understanding.' Pug

There are many ways to love someone. Sometimes we want to love so much we're not too choosy about who we love. Other times we make love such a pure and noble thing no poor human can ever meet our vision. But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.' It doesn't entail marriage, or even physical love. There's love of parents, love of city or nation, love of life, and love of people. All different, all love.

Never underestimate the human capacity for stupid, illogical, and petty behaviour.

There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other.

People will often do imponderable things because of how they feel, not because of what they think.

I love a question I can't answer. It keeps things interesting, even after so many years.

Love doesn't demand; it accepts. It has taken me my life to learn this.

There is a hand behind every curtain,' " she quoted. " 'And a knife in every hand,' finished Mara.

The Empire is all those who live within its borders, from the nobles to the lowest servant, even the slaves who work the fields. It must be seen as a whole, not as being embodied by some small but visible part, such as the Warlord or the High Council.

There was nothing left to fear. He would endure or he wouldn't.

Love doesn't demand; it accepts. Mara to Kamilo.

He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, 'Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.

It is something only a few know in their lives. It is a vision of something so clear, so true, it can only be a madness. You see what life is worth, and you know what death means.

on that night you told me you were the author of my current existence.