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Andrzej Sapkowski Quotes

Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer

Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.

Andrzej Sapkowski
Life, Evil, Choices

To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.

Andrzej Sapkowski
Mean, Hatred, Feelings
Andrzej Sapkowski (2010). “Blood of Elves”, p.122, Hachette UK

People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves... they feel better then. They find it easier to live.

Andrzej Sapkowski
Feel Better, People, Monsters

People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.

Andrzej Sapkowski
Feel Better, Thinking, Arrows
"The Last Wish". Book by Andrzej Sapkowski, 1993.

Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.

Andrzej Sapkowski
Fighting

I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different, I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything.

Andrzej Sapkowski
Pride, Vanity, Jumping

A story can only be contained in a book.

Andrzej Sapkowski
Book, Stories

You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods, including my Melitele, are merely a personification of this power invented for simpletons so they can understand it better, accept its existence. According to you, that power is blind. But for me, Geralt, faith allows you to expect what my goddess personifies from nature: order, law, goodness. And hope.

Andrzej Sapkowski
Believe, Thinking, Order

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