Mark Lawrence Quotes

We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off.

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?

Call it a personal foible. Some people are scared of spiders. I'm scared of immolation. Also spiders.

I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.

We can’t be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house.

What saves us all are the deeds of fools as often as the acts of the wise.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.

Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we do not do the same.

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.