R. Scott Bakker Quotes

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does no...

Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is i...

Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to...

It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from ...

The Men of the Ordeal do not march to save the World, Proyas--at least not first and foremost. They ...

Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow.

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.

There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others.

You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. M...

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving...

There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowled...

Gods are but greater demons," the Cishaurim said, "hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting o...

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These ar...

Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told...

So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. N...

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good w...

Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all ...

Water everywhere, falling in thundering cataracts, singular drops, and draping sheets. Kellhus pause...

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, b...

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

Men, Kellhus had once told her, were like coins: they had two sides. Where one side of them saw, the...

The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause...