513 Quotes by Terry Goodkind

If we are to survive, we need magic now more than ever to defend ourselves from those in the Old World. We need to learn, discover, create. We need to use our reasoning minds and truth.

People whose magic could affect others in an overt manner didn’t need to bite, he imagined, nor would they allow themselves to be held captive.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don’t think so, and the cat doesn’t think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

In this world, everyone must die. None of us has any choice in that. Our choice is how we wish to live.

Darken Rahl shook his fists to the sky. “No!

The truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies.

You can’t expect to walk through life without stepping in the muck now and again. The important thing is to maintain your footing when you do, and not fall on your face and make it worse.

Life could be brutal, but that such brutality did not define life or its purpose, and that the sexes were not rivals, but meant to share together in the work and joys of life.

Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned.