“few things are more familiar, he supposed, than finding oneself a stranger.” — R. Scott Bakker Finding oneself Copy Share Image
“The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men.” — R. Scott Bakker Circle Copy Share Image
“Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance.” — R. Scott Bakker Indistinguishable Copy Share Image
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic. — R. Scott Bakker Anguish Copy Share Image
“We must speak plainly. Only honesty provides truth. Only truth delivers triumph.” — R. Scott Bakker Honesty Copy Share Image
“All sorcerers had studied alchemy to some extent, and all alchemists, at least those worth their salt, knew how to cook.” — R. Scott Bakker Alchemists Copy Share Image
“... fot he sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others.” — R. Scott Bakker Idol Copy Share Image
Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In… — R. Scott Bakker Beggar Copy Share Image
Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered… — R. Scott Bakker Fool Copy Share Image
“Stupid men, Conphas had found, tended to be excessively proud of their few brilliant moments.” — R. Scott Bakker Stupid Copy Share Image
If the world is a game whose rules are written by the God, and sorcerers are those who cheat and cheat, then… — R. Scott Bakker Cheat Copy Share Image
“Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever… — R. Scott Bakker Belief Copy Share Image
“Vulgar languages, especially when native, stand too close to the press of life. Their meanings are too easily warped by our insights… — R. Scott Bakker Language Copy Share Image
I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he… — R. Scott Bakker Asking Copy Share Image
The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny.… — R. Scott Bakker Bondage Copy Share Image
“For whatever reason, heavy drinking at once intensified and deadened the Dreams. The way they slurred into one another made them seem… — R. Scott Bakker Dreams Copy Share Image
“A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyo but the king. Too often, the measure… — R. Scott Bakker Failure Copy Share Image
“You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting… — R. Scott Bakker Count Copy Share Image
The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that… — R. Scott Bakker Arise Copy Share Image
“Do not mistake me, Inrithi. In this much Conphas is right. You are all staggering drunks to me. Boys who would play… — R. Scott Bakker War Copy Share Image
You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep.… — R. Scott Bakker Black Copy Share Image
“Screens of tumbling water, breaking the world beyond them into glittering lines and smeared shadows. Kellhus had ceased trying to penetrate them.… — R. Scott Bakker Philosophy Copy Share Image
“Esmenet had loved joking about cocks. She marvelled at the way men fussed over them, cursing, congratulating, beseeching, coaxing, commanding, even threatening… — R. Scott Bakker Cocks Copy Share Image
“Water everywhere, falling in thundering cataracts, singular drops, and draping sheets. Kellhus paused next to one of the shining braziers, peered beneath… — R. Scott Bakker Absolute truth Copy Share Image
“Whore. How many men had embraced her? How many gritty chins against her cheek? Always something to be endured. All of them… — R. Scott Bakker Whore Copy Share Image
“Men, Kellhus had once told her, were like coins: they had two sides. Where one side of them saw, the other side… — R. Scott Bakker Philosophy Copy Share Image
There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the… — R. Scott Bakker Acknowledge Copy Share Image
“The arguments were assembled and were defeated. The reasons railed and railed. But love had no logic. No more than sleep.” — R. Scott Bakker Defeated Copy Share Image
“I am Cnaiur urs Skiötha, breaker-of-horses-and-men!", "I am Cnaiür urs Skiötha, most violent of all men! I bear your fathers and brothers… — R. Scott Bakker Parenting Copy Share Image
To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. — R. Scott Bakker Indulge Copy Share Image
“Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as… — R. Scott Bakker Death Copy Share Image
Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing. — R. Scott Bakker Faith Copy Share Image
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them… — R. Scott Bakker Ambiguity Copy Share Image
“. . . and that revelation murdered all that I once did know. Where once I asked of the God, 'Who are… — R. Scott Bakker Asked Copy Share Image
Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God. — R. Scott Bakker Done Copy Share Image
“Let us be moved, you and I, by the things themselves. Let us discover each other.” — R. Scott Bakker Moved Copy Share Image
