Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.

I look up, and stop breathing. Eyes glitter in the darkness. Dark shapes sit in the car, more numerous than we are. The factionless.

There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don't understand. Internal is the human heart.

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Monsters are evangelical creatures for me.

The world is a more mysterious place than we admit sometimes - there is more to the world than just human evil.

Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.

I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.

If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.

Fear is the only way to greet the devil.

Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.

The enemy is a spiritual enemy. He's called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan.

Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

But sometimes, maybe most times, it isn't that clear. It is dark and you are near the edge of a cliff, but you're moving slowly, not sure which direction you're heading in. Your steps are tentative but they are still blind in the night. You don't realize how close you are to the edge, how the soft earth could give away, how you could just slip a bit and suddenly plunge into the dark.

A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

We fear that which we cannot see.

What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.