Quotes from Janny Wurts

When hope dies, you breathe it back to life again! No matter how long it takes, or what time's required to heal the wound. Disappointment will not last a lifetime unless you lie down and give in.

An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.

The miracle left him dumbfounded, that his heart had not yet shirked its weary task of pumping his bored blood through his brain.

How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?

Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.

It's tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.

Were you going to tell me you usually kiss your one-night trollops in private?" He laughed. The free-ringing sound held a spark of pure pleasure, unforced and rich with surprise.

No driven man hears unwanted counsel.

My grandfather was sparing in his praise of apprentices. My grandfather insisted we think for ourselves and achieve for our own satisfaction. Deep study of the mysteries were their own tough path, he always said. To live for the approval of others was a pitfall that begged a false turning.

Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.

Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.

Does vengeance or blame ease the sorrow of heart-ache? We all make mistakes. Life can't be lived without harm to others.

Damn you," said Arithon. In a shattering change of mood, he was laughing. "You have it. But what's my word against the grandiloquent predictions of a maudlin and drunken prophet?" "Maybe everything," Felirin finished gently. "You're too young to live without dreams.

The same sages also wrote that violence is the habit of the weak, the impotent and the fool.

All things were formed of energy, arrangements of bundled light that were subject to natural law. The awareness of this truth, defined to absolute perfection, granted the mage-trained their influence. To know a thing, to encompass its full measure in respect was to hold its secrets in mastery. Life-force was the basis of all power.

As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood.

Mockery is the sure mark of the cynic, unredeemed and cut off from salvation.

An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.

Hate has no ears.

Truth, of itself, does not kill.

The rebuke came, keen-edged. 'Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he's about.

Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.

There is no terror so powerful as the one never faced.

Well your full of cow pies up to your ears! I don't give way on the orders of rabble, or bow to Devall's uppity marshal. He can stuff his gold braid! Yes, up his tight arse where it will hurt the most, for all that I care for his posturing! These wagons will pass. Afterwards, you can shoot all the crossbolts you like, and ram yourselves straight to oblivion!