Skip to content

Life Quotes by Robin Hobb

60 Life quotes by Robin Hobb

All Life quotes Robin Hobb’s page

Robin Hobb says that life should be lived, not saved for some unseen tomorrow. She talks about choosing your own path, breaking free from duties that feel forced. She also reminds us that life happens inside our minds, where we add meaning and let go of what we have lost.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

But a living is not a life.

Image

“Death fed life.”

Image

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

Image

“I had no idea what to do with this unexpected life.”

Image

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Image

“The Golden Dawn was the first figurehead to take on life.”

Image

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? -…

Image

“All I ever wanted to do was live my own life. And I’m having damn little success at that.” p. 250: Brashen…

Image

“Take all self-determination from a man’s life, and all that is left for him to do is complain.”

Image

“There were times when taking vengeance for the dead seemed too high a price for abandoning the living. I”

Image

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

Image

“What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world?”

Image

“My perception of my life crashed from high tragedy to juvenile self-pity in a matter of moments.”

Image

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

Image

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how…

Image

“None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, than you…

Image

“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue…

Image

“You are different, Bee. It will make some parts of your life very difficult. But if you always fall back on your…

Image

“I’ve thought of ending my life, Fool. I admit it. But always, no matter the damage to it, the body tries to…

Image

“All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines…

Image

“-Just tell me. Do I break the future? -Oh, child. We all do. That is both the danger and the hope of…

Image

“I've thought of ending my life, Fool. I admit it. But always, no matter the damage to it, the body tries to…

Image

“You should leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life, my brother. You may enjoy unending pain. I do not. There…

Image

“No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be.' ” She lifted her eyes and her gaze stabbed him.…

Image

When you are writing, you have to love all your characters. If you're writing something from a minor character's point of view,…

Image

In that last dance of chances I shall partner you no more. I shall watch another turn you As you move across…

Image

“Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath…

Image

“You can’t go back,” she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. “That part of your life is over.…

Image

“With the Wit, one is aware of all the life that surrounds one. It was not just the warmth of the mare…

Image

“There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You…

Image

“... finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow.”

Image

“(Lady Patience) Do you think you can pretend to be dead and vanish from my life for sixteen years and then walk…

Image

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind…

Image

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to…

Image

“Come, hunt with me, the invitation whispers in my heart. Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again.…

Image

“I wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot…

Image

Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death.…

Image

“when you let go and follow your fate instead of trying to twist your life around and master it, a man finds…

Image

“All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we…

Image

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of…

Image

Other authors on Life

More by Robin Hobb

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

“But that is not true for all folk. Some folk are meant to argue with fate. And win.”

“I tried to leave you alone, Fitz. To find what peace you could, even if it excluded me from your life.” Ten years ago,…

“Do you think you're taking Etta out of here?" "Yes," Kennit called over his shoulder up the sairs. "What about all these dead men?"…

“A way out is a way in. Then,”

“Die in your dreams, wake up insane.”

“I felt a familiar squeezing in what I thought must be my heart. I had heard of being "heartbroken" or "heavy-hearted" but I had…

“They spoke of a dream of a child who bore the heart of a wolf.”

“We all perish in our last attempt to live.”

“There is always power in holding a secret.”

“... finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow.”

“Why, I suddenly wondered, had I wasted all those hours I could have spent with her? Why hadn’t I gone with them, to listen…

“I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been…

“So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day”

“I don't think I can stand it much longer,” he warned her. “Something will have to give way. And I fear it will be…