112 Quotes by R. Scott Bakker

If you find yourself taken unawares by someone you thought you knew, recall that the character revealed is as much your own as otherwise. When it comes to Men and their myriad, mercenary natures, revelation always comes in twos.

Better blind in Hell than speechless in Heaven. –.

That’s the horrible fact of sinners. We’re indistinguishable from the righteous.

Every woman knows there are only two kinds of men: those who feel and those who pretend. Always remember, my dear, though only the former can be loved, only the latter can be trusted. It is passion that blackens eyes, not calculation.

Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as debtors. What’s given is taken.

Ignorance was ever the iron of certainty, for it was as blind to itself as sleep. It was the absence of questions that made answers absolute – not knowledge! To.

Let us be moved, you and I, by the things themselves. Let us discover each other.

Some events mark us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence.

The air became dry and still, like the gap in a dead man’s mouth.