727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

Man cannot grieve as dogs do. But we grieve for many years.

Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.

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.

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

There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.