“Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow.” — R. Scott Bakker Anger Copy Share Image
“He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish.” — R. Scott Bakker Bored Copy Share Image
“One might sooner wash shit from shit than cleanse a soul so wicked!” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish. — R. Scott Bakker Anguish Copy Share Image
“That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.” — R. Scott Bakker History Copy Share Image
The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture. — R. Scott Bakker Burden 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
“The arguments were assembled and were defeated. The reasons railed and railed. But love had no logic. No more than sleep.” — R. Scott Bakker 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 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 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
“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
“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 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
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
“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
“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 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 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
“Sheltered by his caste, Sarcellus had not, as the impoverished must, made fear the pivot of his passions. As a result he… — R. Scott Bakker Fear Copy Share Image
“He struck his own fire, listened to the night wind roar through the trees. Sometimes, when he could see it, he stared… — R. Scott Bakker Children 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
“While waiting for the hidden machinery of messengers and secretaries to relay his request, Achamian wandered into an adjoining courtyard, struck by… — R. Scott Bakker Change the world 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
To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. — R. Scott Bakker 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
“We must speak plainly. Only honesty provides truth. Only truth delivers triumph.” — R. Scott Bakker Honesty 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
“... fot he sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others.” — R. Scott Bakker 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
Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
