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David Eddings Quotes | Quotes said by David Eddings

  • David Eddings Quote #1

    ...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.


  • David Eddings Quote #2

    Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion

  • David Eddings Quote #3

    As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.
    -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

  • David Eddings Quote #4

    As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

  • David Eddings Quote #5

    Garion drew in a deep breath. Or, he continued, I can go off by myself and find Torak - wherever he is - and try to kill him.

    Silk whistled, his eyes widening.

    He said that I didn't have to go alone, Garion added hopefully. I asked him about that.

    Thanks, Belgarath said dryly.

  • David Eddings Quote #6

    Garion,' she said very calmly, 'the universe knew your name before that moon up there was spun out of the emptiness. Whole constellations have been waiting for you since the beginning of time.'
    I didn't want them to, Aunt Pol.'
    There are those of us who aren't given that option, Garion. There are things that gave to be done and certain people who have to do them. It's as simple as that.'
    He smiled rather sadly at her flawless face and gently touched the snowy white lock at her brow. Then, for the last time in his life, he asked the question that had been on his lips since he was a tiny boy. 'Why me, Aunt Pol? Why me?'
    Can you possibly think of anyone else you'd trust to deal with these matters, Garion?'
    He had not really been prepared for that question. It came at him in stark simplicity. Now at last he fully understood. 'No,' he sighed, 'I suppose not. Somehow it seems a little unfair, though. I wasn't even consulted.'
    Neither was I, Garion,' she answered. 'But we didn't have to be consulted, did we? The knowledge of what we have to do is born into us.

  • David Eddings Quote #7

    God save us from religion.

  • David Eddings Quote #8

    His stories were not always new, but there was in the telling of them a special kind of magic. His voice could roll like thunder or hush down into a zepherlike whisper. He could imitate the voices of a dozen men at once; whistle so like a bird that the birds themselves would come to him to hear what he had to say; and when when he imitated the howl of a wolf, the sound could raise the hair on the backs of his listeners' necks and strike a chill into their hearts like the depths of a Drasnian winter. He could make the sound of rain and of wind and even, most miraculously, the sound of snow falling.

  • David Eddings Quote #9

    I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

  • David Eddings Quote #10

    I thought you said you were the one in charge! Ce'Nedra exclaimed.

    I lied. Silk said. It's a vice I have.

  • David Eddings Quote #11

    I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

  • David Eddings Quote #12

    It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

  • David Eddings Quote #13

    Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.

  • David Eddings Quote #14

    Life without any wonder left in it is flat and stale.

  • David Eddings Quote #15

    Mountains could be what happens when Father Earth eats something that doesn’t agree with him. When he burps, mountains pop up.

    That’s absurd, Keselo said, trying not to laugh.

    If you’ve got a better theory, I’d be happy to hear it, Red-Beard said mildly. Anyway, a burp isn’t anything but air that boils up out of a man’s stomach, so Father Earth’s mountains have chunks of empty air in the middle of them—burps that didn’t quite manage to make it to the surface, you understand.

  • David Eddings Quote #16

    Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

  • David Eddings Quote #17

    Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

  • David Eddings Quote #18

    Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.

  • David Eddings Quote #19

    Silk laughed. You really should try not to let your knife do all your thinking for you. That's the one quality we find least attractive in our Cherek cousins.
    And we find this compulsion to make clever remarks which seems to overwhelm our Drasnian brothers now and then almost equally unattractive, Barak told him coolly.

  • David Eddings Quote #20

    Some day, Prince Kheldar, you will fall in love, the queen said with a little smirk, and the twelve kingdoms will stand around and chortle over the fall of so notorious a bachelor.

  • David Eddings Quote #21

    The coronation took place at noon the following day. The Hall of the Rivan King was full to overflowing with nobles and royalty, and the city below was alive with the sound of bells.
    Garion could not actually remember very much of his coronation. He did remember that the ermine-bordered cape was hot and the plain gold crown the Rivan Deacon placed on his head was very heavy

  • David Eddings Quote #22

    The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'
    Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'
    That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

  • David Eddings Quote #23

    The place had enormous possibilities. He realized that at once. The stream, of course, was perfect for sailing toy boats, for skipping stones, and, in the event of failing inspiration, for falling into. Several of the trees appeared to have been specifically designed for climbing, and one huge, white old birch overhanging the stream promised the exhilarating combination of climbing a tree and falling into the water, all at one time.

  • David Eddings Quote #24

    The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

  • David Eddings Quote #25

    The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it

  • David Eddings Quote #26

    We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told, is like that. Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again.
    I think that if I had my choice, I'd prefer one of those quiet centuries, Garion said glumly.
    Oh, no, Silk said, his lips drawing back in a ferretlike grin. Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

  • David Eddings Quote #27

    Well, it's nice to know that the Trolls made it this far south,' Ulath said. 'I'd hate to have to go looking for them.'
    'Their Gods were guiding them, Ulath,' Tynian pointed out.
    'You've never talked with the Troll-Gods, I see,' Ulath laughed. 'Their sense of direction is a little vague - probably because their compass only has two directions on it.'
    'Oh?'
    'North and not-north. It makes finding places a little difficult.

  • David Eddings Quote #28

    What am I going to do? asked Ce'Nedra.

    First you ought to go wash your face, Polgara told her. Some girls can cry without making themselves ugly, but you don't have the right coloring for it. You're an absolute fright. I'd advise you never to cry in public if you can help it.

  • David Eddings Quote #29

    What was that? Belgarath asked, coming back around the corner.
    Brill, Silk replied blandly, pulling his Murgo robe back on.
    Again? Belgarath demanded with exasperation. What was he doing this time?
    Trying to fly, last time I saw him. Silk smirked.
    The old man looked puzzled.
    He wasn't doing it very well, Silk added.
    Belgarath shrugged. Maybe it'll come to him in time.
    He doesn't really have all that much time. Silk glanced out over the edge.
    From far below - terribly far below - there came a faint, muffled crash; then, after several seconds, another. Does bouncing count? Silk asked.
    Belgarath made a wry face. Not really.
    Then I'd say he didn't learn in time. Silk said blithely.

  • David Eddings Quote #30

    When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.

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