“One might sooner wash shit from shit than cleanse a soul so wicked!” — R. Scott Bakker Shit Copy Share Image
The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish. — R. Scott Bakker Anguish Copy Share Image
“He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish.” — R. Scott Bakker Bored Copy Share Image
“That’s the horrible fact of sinners. We’re indistinguishable from the righteous.” — R. Scott Bakker Justice Copy Share Image
Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their… — R. Scott Bakker Argument 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“You realized those truths that cut against the interests of the powerful were called lies, and that those lies that served those… — R. Scott Bakker Lies Copy Share Image
“I am a warrior of ages, Anasurimbor ... ages. I have dipped my nimil in a thousand hearts. I have ridden both… — R. Scott Bakker Warrior Copy Share Image
“We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies.… — R. Scott Bakker Deceit Copy Share Image
“You’ve learned the lesson,' Kellhus had said on one of those rare mornings when he shared her breakfast. 'What lesson might that… — R. Scott Bakker Ignorance Copy Share Image
To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to… — R. Scott Bakker Capitulation Copy Share Image
“When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool. When a child possesses the cunning of a… — R. Scott Bakker Children 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
“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
“No soul moves alone through the world, Leweth. Our every thought stems from the thoughts of others. Our every word is but… — R. Scott Bakker Soul 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
“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
“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
“Masses of warring men animated the horizon, crashing into stubborn ranks, churning in melee. The air didn’t so much thunder as hiss… — R. Scott Bakker Assassin Copy Share Image
“The Men of the Ordeal do not march to save the World, Proyas--at least not first and foremost. They march to save… — R. Scott Bakker Children Copy Share Image
“Our words always paint two portraits when we describe our families to others. Outsiders cannot but see the small peeves and follies… — R. Scott Bakker Family Copy Share Image
“And he now knew with certainty that the world was hollowed of its wonder by knowledge and travel, that when one stripped… — R. Scott Bakker Travel 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
“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
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
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
“... 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
“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
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
