Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears, A naked runner lost in a storm of spears.

And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they’re scared.

High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, "Remember Night!"

Angry people are not always wise.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise.

One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.

His bark is worse than his bite.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea? The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? Where he's kept or what's the counter of his face? Is he a weaver, bloody shuttle shot through a time warp, a carder of souls from the world's nap? Or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each? Dear friend he is not to be dwelt upon for it is by just such wise that he's invited in

The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

It's the worst feeling when you come home alone late at night and think the stranger sitting on your couch is a pile of clothes.

You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.