Janny Wurts Quotes & Sayings

Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction. — Janny Wurts

Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who's given us more, the Light's faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter? — Janny Wurts

You don't have to like a man to respect him. — Janny Wurts

You cannot trust yourself,' she agreed, bed-rock calm. 'Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me. — Janny Wurts

Did I mention any name?" But dissembling was wasted; Eldir only glowered until Sethvir gave way with a shrug. "That's the part of his personality that makes us all feel like we've been kissing coiled vipers for a penny bet. — Janny Wurts

I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource. — Janny Wurts

Fanatics don't choose to stop blinding themselves. His Lordship's more at risk of becoming the figure-head steered by the needs of the mob."
"What man who leads a pack of followers isn't? — Janny Wurts

Does vengeance or blame ease the sorrow of heart-ache? We all make mistakes. Life can't be lived without harm to others. — Janny Wurts

What is our experience, but the reflected truth of our misapprehensions and short-falls? And also the grace of our beauty and strength, and the wise choices that make up our character? — Janny Wurts

I should be impressed?' he commented finally. 'World renowned for foul works and mayhem, whether I practise such doctrine, or not? A shame. Shown such vulgar taste, what man with a mind would scarcely wallow to seek further clarity. Sweet faith, bliss, and bathos, it's an execrable drama. Never mind that the theological concepts are glorified platitudes sprung out of lies. — Janny Wurts

Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince. — Janny Wurts

Done without love, any congress between man and woman degrades the creative intelligence that graces your humanity. — Janny Wurts

Mockery is the sure mark of the cynic, unredeemed and cut off from salvation. — Janny Wurts

Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence. — Janny Wurts

An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity. — Janny Wurts

The miracle left him dumbfounded, that his heart had not yet shirked its weary task of pumping his bored blood through his brain. — Janny Wurts

There's a choice?"
"Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things. — Janny Wurts

Look at yourself, idiot. You reek like the slaughter-house. Plan your dastard's revenge as you like. But for those of us liking our company civilized, spare us the horror and bathe yourself first! — Janny Wurts

Prophets are dastardly pessimists, to a man. — Janny Wurts

Truth, of itself, does not kill. — Janny Wurts

Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight. — Janny Wurts

Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged. — Janny Wurts

I always listen," the duke said, annoyed. "Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders. — Janny Wurts

There is no terror so powerful as the one never faced. — Janny Wurts

An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force. — Janny Wurts

I pity the man who can't cry. — Janny Wurts

Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned, no matter how hard we try to live up to them. — Janny Wurts

Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well. — Janny Wurts

There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them. — Janny Wurts

Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for. — Janny Wurts

Damn you," said Arithon. In a shattering change of mood, he was laughing. "You have it. But what's my word against the grandiloquent predictions of a maudlin and drunken prophet?"
"Maybe everything," Felirin finished gently. "You're too young to live without dreams. — Janny Wurts

As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood. — Janny Wurts

It's tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat. — Janny Wurts

The grievous burden of remorse shouted shame, that a criminally blind ideology could reject the promise of birthright, then mangle the exuberant vigour of life, designed by nature to celebrate only creative abundance. — Janny Wurts

Because you've survived, there is a next strategy. — Janny Wurts

No driven man hears unwanted counsel. — Janny Wurts

Were you going to tell me you usually kiss your one-night trollops in private?
He laughed. The free-ringing sound held a spark of pure pleasure, unforced and rich with surprise. — Janny Wurts

A soldier's life is all grinding routine. Who sold you the rosy notion of honour, trumped up in bright flags and glory? We're here to burn barley. Tossing a torch takes a damned sight less practice than trenching hard ground with a spade. — Janny Wurts

There are no victims, now. While we survive, for as long as we love, our future is yet to be written. — Janny Wurts

What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options? — Janny Wurts

You always did like to run things, never mind your crafty knack for making everyone believe that somebody else was in charge. — Janny Wurts

Is my love so small that I cannot let him discover anew what happiness life has to offer? — Janny Wurts

A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection. — Janny Wurts

This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight. — Janny Wurts

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge. — Janny Wurts

You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names. — Janny Wurts

I say human beings have purposeful brains beyond acting like flocks of scared pigeons. — Janny Wurts

My grandfather was sparing in his praise of apprentices. My grandfather insisted we think for ourselves and achieve for our own satisfaction. Deep study of the mysteries were their own tough path, he always said. To live for the approval of others was a pitfall that begged a false turning. — Janny Wurts

But hope always kindles through striving. — Janny Wurts

I trust you," she murmured through urgency. "Completely. Without end, and before the beginning. — Janny Wurts

Your prim faith in the True Sect's canon serves naught. The temple preaches a loveless morality that cares not one jot for the plight of our livelihood. The priests are fat parasites, theosophizing on their rumps while folk like us break our backs, milked dry by their tithes and their rote obligations. Where does their doctrine show the least concern for our chance to enjoy the fruits of our happiness? — Janny Wurts

You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative. — Janny Wurts

Hate has no ears. — Janny Wurts

But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people! — Janny Wurts

Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation. — Janny Wurts

Well your full of cow pies up to your ears! I don't give way on the orders of rabble, or bow to Devall's uppity marshal. He can stuff his gold braid! Yes, up his tight arse where it will hurt the most, for all that I care for his posturing! These wagons will pass. Afterwards, you can shoot all the crossbolts you like, and ram yourselves straight to oblivion! — Janny Wurts

How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless? — Janny Wurts

Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances. — Janny Wurts

All things were formed of energy, arrangements of bundled light that were subject to natural law. The awareness of this truth, defined to absolute perfection, granted the mage-trained their influence. To know a thing, to encompass its full measure in respect was to hold its secrets in mastery. Life-force was the basis of all power. — Janny Wurts

I would sooner converse with a snake!" He side-stepped the clutter.
"Speak and have done. Even snakes prefer their choice of company. — Janny Wurts

The rebuke came, keen-edged. 'Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he's about. — Janny Wurts

When hope dies, you breathe it back to life again! No matter how long it takes, or what time's required to heal the wound. Disappointment will not last a lifetime unless you lie down and give in. — Janny Wurts

You can't let your past write the future — Janny Wurts

Sithaer's dark furies," Dakar swore. "Why do I stay with you?"
"For maudlin entertainment, no doubt. — Janny Wurts

Doubt packs more damage, kept secret. — Janny Wurts

There's an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another's degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving. — Janny Wurts