Quotes by Robin Hobb

“It is worse than useless to do things halfway Bee, for then you think the work is done, but someone must come behind you later to do it all over again. Even if you must work much harder and get les...”

“I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.”

“Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.”

“That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.”

“He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if sh...”

“He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.”

“Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself.”

“There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.”

“Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage ...”

“That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot r...”

“The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your frien...”

“Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?”

“Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in walking away from bones. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is ...”

“And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.”

“Had she learned to feel again, only to have to feel this? Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?”

“In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.”

“When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.”

“Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.”

“Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sleep and assume we will always rise up the next day, that meals and rest will always replenish us....”

“It is the nature of human that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.”