R. Scott Bakker

Quotes

• “The Men of the Ordeal do not march to save the World, Proyas--at least not first and foremost. They march to save their ...”
• “You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally for...”
• “I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance m...”
• “Gods are but greater demons," the Cishaurim said, "hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the cla...”
• “History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-...”
• “Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men...”
• “Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of so...”
• “Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.”
• “Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow.”
• “There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others.”
• “The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.”
• “Darkness shields as much as it threatens.”