“I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“Your destiny is now your own to forge as best as you may.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“I love a question I can’t answer. It keeps things interesting, even after so many years.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“the enemy of our enemy is our ally,”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“One of the problems with being my age is you look at everyone who is younger as children, and when everyone else around you is younger, it means you live in a universe of children. So you tend to scold more than is proper.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“Immortality, power, dominance, all are illusions. Don’t you see? We are simply pawns in a game beyond our understanding.’ Pug”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“on that night you told me you were the author of my current existence.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“We’ll never again be the boys we once were, Tomas. But we’ve become so much more than we dreamed.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“few things of worth are ever simple. Or easy.’ Tomas”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“Debts of friendship are not debts.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“you are not like others. You are of neither the Lesser nor the Greater Path. You are a sorcerer, one who knows there are no paths, only magic. And magic may be limited only by the limits of one’s gifts.’ Tomas”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“He considered the importance of what he was to do, and calmed himself. He felt the dragon’s mood and acknowledged it. It was a willingness to accept whatever fate brought, but without a resignation to defeat. Death might come, but with it might also come victory.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“the most ancient lesson of the Tsurani: duty is the weight of all things, as heavy as a burden can become, while death is nothing, lighter than air.’ The”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“Then the universe rocks. The very fabric of reality is rent.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“here you’ve got to live, breathe, and eat trust, or you’re dead.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“We saw what we saw. Whether it was a place or a vision in our mind, it doesn’t matter. We must act upon what we experienced, so to that end, yes, it was real.’ ‘Now?”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“power is limited to the strength of will within the man who holds it. Falter in your resolve and you will fall. Remain steadfast and you shall prevail. Always remember that. ‘Come,”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“in kings people overlook and forgive behaviour they would not tolerate in others.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“Train those around you well, Pug. Make them powerful, but make them loving, generous men and women as well.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“The universe collapsed and came crashing down upon them. It”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“when you enter another’s reality, you observe her rules. Then”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“Still, few things of worth are ever simple. Or easy.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“I know, when we are young we cannot entertain the idea another's feelings can be as deep as our own. Our love is so much loftier, our pain so much more intense.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
Raymond E. Feist
Born place: in Los Angeles, California, The United States
Born date December 23, 1945
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“You can never know. That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, quote from Children of Time
“It’s worse when they think they’re your friend. Gawx, the viziers. They make assumptions. They think they know you, then start to expect things of you. Then you have to be the person everyone thinks you are, not the person you actually are.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Edgedancer
“Luther’s room at the Wartburg contained a tiled oven for warmth, a simple desk and chair, of which he made ample use, and one especially curious object, likely a gift from Frederick, via Spalatin, though any letter in which it is referenced has been lost. It was the gargantuan vertebra of a whale, doubtless from the remains of a cetacean that had beached or washed up someplace very far away, probably on the coast of the North Sea. Whale bones were at that time prized for their healing powers, and one assumes that because Luther complained so regularly of the various maladies affecting him, Spalatin had found it and sent it along as a happy surprise and encouragement. And how could Luther help to have been cheered by something as outrageous and singular as this colossal white bone from a leviathan that once swam endless miles beneath the waves of a distant sea? Luther had never seen the ocean, and never would in his life, so the exotic quality of the object must have been all the greater.”
― Eric Metaxas, quote from Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
“Did you know the bear idea of courtship is to kidnap their mates off the streets? Surely not. Surely yes.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“At the end of that class Demian said to me thoughtfully: "There’s something I don’t like about this story, Sinclair. Why don’t you read it once more and give it the acid test? There’s something about it that doesn’t taste right. I mean the business with the two thieves. The three crosses standing next to each other on the hill are almost impressive, to be sure. But now comes this sentimental little treatise about the good thief. At first he was a thorough scoundrel, had committed all those awful things and God knows what else, and now he dissolves in tears and celebrates such a tearful feast of self-improvement and remorse! What’s the sense of repenting if you’re two steps from the grave? I ask you. Once again, it’s nothing but a priest’s fairy tale, saccharine and dishonest, touched up with sentimentality and given a high edifying background. If you had to pick a friend from between the two thieves or decide which one you’d rather trust, you most certainly wouldn’t choose the sniveling convert. No, the other fellow, he’s a man of character. He doesn’t give a hoot for ‘conversion’, which to a man in his position can’t be anything but a pretty speech. He follows his destiny to it’s appointed end and does not turn coward and forswear the devil, who has aided and abetted him until then. He has character, and people with character tend to receive the short end of the stick in biblical stories. Perhaps he’s even a descendant of Cain. Don’t you agree?"
I was dismayed. Until now I had felt completely at home in the story of the Crucifixion. Now I saw for the first time with how little individuality, with how little power of imagination I had listened to it and read it. Still, Demian’s new concept seemed vaguely sinister and threatened to topple beliefs on whose continued existence I felt I simply had to insist. No, one could not make light of everything, especially not of the most Sacred matters.
As usual he noticed my resistance even before I had said anything.
"I know," he said in a resigned tone of voice, "it’s the same old story: don’t take these stories seriously! But I have to tell you something: this is one of the very places that reveals the poverty of this religion most distinctly. The point is that this God of both Old and New Testaments is certainly an extraordinary figure but not what he purports to represent. He is all that is good, noble, fatherly, beautiful, elevated, sentimental—true! But the world consists of something else besides. And what is left over is ascribed to the devil, this entire slice of world, this entire half is hushed up. In exactly the same way they praise God as the father of all life but simply refuse to say a word about our sexual life on which it’s all based, describing it whenever possible as sinful, the work of the devil. I have no objection to worshiping this God Jehovah, far from it. But I mean we ought to consider everything sacred, the entire world, not merely this artificially separated half! Thus alongside the divine service we should also have a service for the devil. I feel that would be right. Otherwise you must create for yourself a God that contains the devil too and in front of which you needn’t close your eyes when the most natural things in the world take place.”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from Demian
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