Raymond E. Feist > Quotes

“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Rise of a Merchant Prince

“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“The saddest part of a broken heart
Isn't the ending so much as the start
The tragedy starts from the very first spark
Losing your mind for the sake of your heart”
― Raymond E. Feist

“Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Krondor: The Betrayal

“Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician

“Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.”
― Raymond E. Feist

“The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.”
― Raymond E. Feist, The King's Buccaneer

“I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.”
― Raymond E. Feist

“The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Shards of a Broken Crown

“But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician: Master

“Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.”
― Raymond E. Feist

“Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved.
Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician: Apprentice

“The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Krondor: The Betrayal

“Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.”
― Raymond E. Feist, The King's Buccaneer

“Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician: Apprentice

“I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.”
― Raymond E. Feist, A Darkness at Sethanon

“Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.”
― Raymond E. Feist

“Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.”
― Raymond E. Feist

“The faults we see in others never seem as dreadful as those we see in ourselves.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician

“You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.”
― Raymond E. Feist, The King's Buccaneer

“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Jimmy the Hand

“You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure”
― Raymond E. Feist, The King's Buccaneer

“My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―”
― Raymond E. Feist, Prince of the Blood

“Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“The first love is the difficult love.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician

“What you remember, it’s real. It doesn’t matter how accurate your memory of something is, it is real to you. What you perceive as reality is reality.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Wrath of a Mad God

“But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Prince of the Blood

“Boys... You're all idiots”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician: Apprentice

“Your destiny is now your own to forge as best as you may.”
― Raymond E. Feist, A Darkness at Sethanon