R. Scott Bakker Quotes - Page 2

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.

Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

If the world is a game whose rules are written by the God, and sorcerers are those who cheat and cheat, then who has written the rules of sorcery?

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds.

If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.

It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.

He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.

I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.

Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.