Janny Wurts Quotes

When hope dies, you breathe it back to life again! No matter how long it takes, or what time's required to heal the wound. Disappointment will not last a lifetime unless you lie down and give in.

— Janny Wurts

“An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.”

— Janny Wurts

“Were you going to tell me you usually kiss your one-night trollops in private?
He laughed. The free-ringing sound held a spark of pure pleasure, unforced and rich with surprise.”

— Janny Wurts

How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?

— Janny Wurts

“The miracle left him dumbfounded, that his heart had not yet shirked its weary task of pumping his bored blood through his brain.”

— Janny Wurts

“All things were formed of energy, arrangements of bundled light that were subject to natural law. The awareness of this truth, defined to absolute perfection, granted the mage-trained their influence. To know a thing, to encompass its full measure in respect was to hold its secrets in mastery. Life-force was the basis of all power.”

— Janny Wurts

“Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.”

— Janny Wurts

“As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood.”

— Janny Wurts

Well your full of cow pies up to your ears! I don't give way on the orders of rabble, or bow to Devall's uppity marshal. He can stuff his gold braid! Yes, up his tight arse where it will hurt the most, for all that I care for his posturing! These wagons will pass. Afterwards, you can shoot all the crossbolts you like, and ram yourselves straight to oblivion!

— Janny Wurts

Does vengeance or blame ease the sorrow of heart-ache? We all make mistakes. Life can't be lived without harm to others.

— Janny Wurts

Truth, of itself, does not kill.

— Janny Wurts

“Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned, no matter how hard we try to live up to them.”

— Janny Wurts

“You don't have to like a man to respect him.”

— Janny Wurts

“I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource.”

— Janny Wurts

“Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction.”

— Janny Wurts

“There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them.”

— Janny Wurts

Mockery is the sure mark of the cynic, unredeemed and cut off from salvation.

— Janny Wurts

“Fanatics don't choose to stop blinding themselves. His Lordship's more at risk of becoming the figure-head steered by the needs of the mob."
"What man who leads a pack of followers isn't?”

— Janny Wurts

“This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight.”

— Janny Wurts

“What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?”

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A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.

— Janny Wurts

“Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who's given us more, the Light's faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter?”

— Janny Wurts

“Done without love, any congress between man and woman degrades the creative intelligence that graces your humanity.”

— Janny Wurts

“You can't let your past write the future”

— Janny Wurts

You always did like to run things, never mind your crafty knack for making everyone believe that somebody else was in charge.

— Janny Wurts

“How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.”

— Janny Wurts

“Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince.”

— Janny Wurts

“I always listen," the duke said, annoyed. "Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders.”

— Janny Wurts

“Sithaer's dark furies," Dakar swore. "Why do I stay with you?"
"For maudlin entertainment, no doubt.”

— Janny Wurts

“Hate has no ears.”

— Janny Wurts

“Doubt packs more damage, kept secret.”

— Janny Wurts

“I pity the man who can't cry.”

— Janny Wurts

“I would sooner converse with a snake!" He side-stepped the clutter.
"Speak and have done. Even snakes prefer their choice of company.”

— Janny Wurts

“But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people!”

— Janny Wurts

There's an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another's degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

— Janny Wurts

The grievous burden of remorse shouted shame, that a criminally blind ideology could reject the promise of birthright, then mangle the exuberant vigour of life, designed by nature to celebrate only creative abundance.

— Janny Wurts

“Look at yourself, idiot. You reek like the slaughter-house. Plan your dastard's revenge as you like. But for those of us liking our company civilized, spare us the horror and bathe yourself first!”

— Janny Wurts

“But hope always kindles through striving.”

— Janny Wurts

“Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.”

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“I say human beings have purposeful brains beyond acting like flocks of scared pigeons.”

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“Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight.”

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You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.

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“There's a choice?"
"Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things.”

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“Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.”

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“Prophets are dastardly pessimists, to a man.”

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What is our experience, but the reflected truth of our misapprehensions and short-falls? And also the grace of our beauty and strength, and the wise choices that make up our character?

— Janny Wurts

Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.

— Janny Wurts

“Your prim faith in the True Sect's canon serves naught. The temple preaches a loveless morality that cares not one jot for the plight of our livelihood. The priests are fat parasites, theosophizing on their rumps while folk like us break our backs, milked dry by their tithes and their rote obligations. Where does their doctrine show the least concern for our chance to enjoy the fruits of our happiness?”

— Janny Wurts

“Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.”

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Did I mention any name?" But dissembling was wasted; Eldir only glowered until Sethvir gave way with a shrug. "That's the part of his personality that makes us all feel like we've been kissing coiled vipers for a penny bet.

— Janny Wurts