Mark Lawrence Quotes - Page 2

Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.

There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option.

You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead?

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to be a very good indicator.

I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.

Few things worth having can be got easily.

Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.

It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.

I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that.

In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption.

Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.

A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.

Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.

There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.

Hate will keep you alive where love fails

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it

You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.

I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.

something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.