Quote by R. Scott Bakker

If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.

— R. Scott Bakker

Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to…

— R. Scott Bakker

I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why…

— R. Scott Bakker

“When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool. When a child possesses the cunning of a man, we…

— R. Scott Bakker

“I am a warrior of ages, Anasurimbor ... ages. I have dipped my nimil in a thousand hearts. I have ridden both against and…

— R. Scott Bakker

“The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned think the God…

— R. Scott Bakker

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

— R. Scott Bakker

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

— R. Scott Bakker

“Sorweel: „Then how can we hope to resist him?“ Harweel: „With our swords and our shields. And when those fail us, with spit and…

— R. Scott Bakker

“He struck his own fire, listened to the night wind roar through the trees. Sometimes, when he could see it, he stared at the…

— R. Scott Bakker

“That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.”

— R. Scott Bakker

“For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.”

— R. Scott Bakker