R. Scott Bakker Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?

  R. Scott Bakker

  Men, Soul, Darkness

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.250, The Overlook Press

• He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Thinking, Forever, Soul

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.172, The Overlook Press

• Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Children, Soul, Way

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.85, The Overlook Press

• Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?

  R. Scott Bakker

  Soul, Taste, Clarity

  R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.145, The Overlook Press

• To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Soul, Peculiar, Movement

  R. Scott Bakker (2010). “The Judging Eye: One (The Aspect-Emperor Trilogy)”, p.257, The Overlook Press

• You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them.

  R. Scott Bakker

  War, Mean, Dark

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.369, The Overlook Press

• It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Soul

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.8, The Overlook Press

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