Quotes About Battle

You ride to battle? Karede asked. I was thinking more of a saunter, Mat said. He shook his head. I need a feel for what Demandred is doing...I'm going out there, Karede, and putting you fellows between me and the Trollocs sounds delightful. Are you coming?

The Last Battle was not hope. The Last Battle was death. But it was a place to be, a place to go.

I am Birgitte Silverbow, Birgitte announced, as if to dispel doubt. The Horn of Valere has sounded, calling all to the Last Battle. The heroes have returned!

I told you to make weapons, Taim. Show me just how deadly they are. Disperse the Shaido. Break them.

The difference between you and Cadsuane is that you actually care about me. She only cares about my place in her plans. She wants me to be part of the Final battle. You want me to live. For that, you have my thanks. Dream on my behalf, Nynaeve. Dream for things I no longer can.

The Seanchan fight the Shadow. -message from Dragon Reborn to Egwene

It looks a good plan to me. As good as any till the arrows start flying.

WE WILL MEET AGAIN ON TOMAN HEAD. IT IS NEVER OVER, AL'THOR.

Rand sent us away to search for an enemy," he bellowed. "We return to him having found allies. Onward, to the Last Battle!" Only

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

In the last, lorn fight 'gainst the fall of long night, the mountains stand guard, and the dead shall be ward, for the grave is no bar to my call.

Among Aiel, men do not sing, you know. Isn't that strange? From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.

To the Aiel, it was not a war; it was an execution.

This is it, Egwene," Mat said. "Take a deep breath, a last pull on the brandy, or burn your final pinch of tabac. Have a good look at the ground before you, as it's soon going to be covered in blood. In an hour, we'll be in the thick of it. The Light watch over us all.

You know the Prophecies of the Dragon? 'When the Wolf King carries the hammer, thus are the final days known. When the fox marries the raven, and the trumpets of battle are blown.' I never understood that second line, myself.

It was beyond unwise to enter battle angry. Anger narrowed the vision and made for foolish choices.

Asha'man, kill! -Mazrim Taim

Battle was always a mess. The only neat battles were the ones in stories or history books.

I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather.

Aemon had sent out messengers. Aid was promised if they could hold for but three days at the Tarendrelle. Hold for three days against odds that should overwhelm them in the first hour. Yet somehow, through bloody assault and desperate defense, they held through an hour, and the second hour, and the third. For three days they fought, and though the land became a butcher's yard, no crossing of the Tarendrelle did they yield.

Do we fight? If we do, then know that in battle there is only winning and losing. Rules against hurting are for games.

Los Valdar Cuebiyari! Los! Carai an Caldazar! Al Caldazar!

Un soldado que se culpa por la muerte de sus compañeros en la batalla es un necio.

Warder's blade met black steel from the forges at Thakan'dar with a clang like a great bell, the toll echoing in the hollow, a flash of blue light filling the air like sheet lightning.