Steven Erikson Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of adulthood. Armour encumbers, restricts the body and soul within it. But it also protects. Blows are blunted. Feelings lose their edge, leaving us to suffer naught but a plague of bruises, and, after a time, bruises fade.

  Steven Erikson

  Children, Blow, Leaving

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)”, p.160, Random House

• Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece.

  Steven Erikson

  Fashion, Soul, Soldier

  "Memories of Ice". Book by Steven Erikson, December 6, 2001.

• We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558

  Steven Erikson

  Humility, Soul, Mastery

• He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.

  Steven Erikson

  Song, Blessed, Men

• And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.

  Steven Erikson

  Fire, Blue, Cities

• The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

  Steven Erikson

  Grief, Soul, Ends

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