Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.
Robert Jordan
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
Author
Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
Anything
Sing
Make
Battle
Men
Singing
Dirge
Time
Boys
Chants
Dead
Slain
Becomes
Weep
Heard
Killed
Song
Stones
More quotes by Robert Jordan
Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
Robert Jordan
Any day you wake up, maybe you die.
Robert Jordan
Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
Robert Jordan
You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.
Robert Jordan
You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you? Elayne asked. I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.
Robert Jordan
Yes, I'm alive, Mat said. I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.
Robert Jordan
When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.
Robert Jordan
Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.
Robert Jordan
Thank you, the young mother said again. Thank you. The Black Tower protects, Logain heard himself say. Always. I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age, the woman promised, holding her son. I would have him join you, if he has the talent. The talent. Not the curse. The talent.
Robert Jordan
You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.
Robert Jordan
Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
Robert Jordan
A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.
Robert Jordan
A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.
Robert Jordan
I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)
Robert Jordan
If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.
Robert Jordan
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
Robert Jordan
Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
Robert Jordan
Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.
Robert Jordan
Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.
Robert Jordan
It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.
Robert Jordan