Quotes by : R. Scott Bakker

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

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

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

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

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

Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not....

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

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

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