Janny Wurts Quotes

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

Done without love, any congress between man and woman degrades the creative intelligence that graces your humanity.

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.

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

Is my love so small that I cannot let him discover anew what happiness life has to offer?

I trust you," she murmured through urgency. "Completely. Without end, and before the beginning.

I say human beings have purposeful brains beyond acting like flocks of scared pigeons.

Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who's given us more, the Light's faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter?

No driven man hears unwanted counsel.

Because you've survived, there is a next strategy.

I would sooner converse with a snake!" He side-stepped the clutter.
"Speak and have done. Even snakes prefer their choice of company.

You cannot trust yourself,' she agreed, bed-rock calm. 'Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me.

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

There's a choice?"
"Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things.

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Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight.

Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction.

Sithaer's dark furies," Dakar swore. "Why do I stay with you?"
"For maudlin entertainment, no doubt.

Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince.

Fanatics don't choose to stop blinding themselves. His Lordship's more at risk of becoming the figure-head steered by the needs of the mob."
"What man who leads a pack of followers isn't?

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.

A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.

But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people!

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.

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

Your prim faith in the True Sect's canon serves naught. The temple preaches a loveless morality that cares not one jot for the plight of our livelihood. The priests are fat parasites, theosophizing on their rumps while folk like us break our backs, milked dry by their tithes and their rote obligations. Where does their doctrine show the least concern for our chance to enjoy the fruits of our happiness?

Doubt packs more damage, kept secret.

This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight.

Hate has no ears.

You don't have to like a man to respect him.

What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?

Truth, of itself, does not kill.

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.

Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.

You always did like to run things, never mind your crafty knack for making everyone believe that somebody else was in charge.

There's an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another's degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.

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

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.

But hope always kindles through striving.

A soldier's life is all grinding routine. Who sold you the rosy notion of honour, trumped up in bright flags and glory? We're here to burn barley. Tossing a torch takes a damned sight less practice than trenching hard ground with a spade.

I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource.

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

You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names.

I always listen," the duke said, annoyed. "Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders.

Sometimes there are no victims to save, and nothing is broken that should be fixed.

Prophets are dastardly pessimists, to a man.

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

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.