Inspirational Quotes by Joe Abercrombie — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“You are too full of your own hopes to hold anyone else's.”

“He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at random. Something everyone knows, but no one truly believes. They think that when it comes to them there will be a lesson, a meaning, a story worth telling. That death will come to them as a dread scholar, a fell knight, a terrible emperor.”

“You need to stop clinging to the notion that there is only one right path. You’ll waste half your time panicking you’re not on it, and the rest backtracking to find it.”

“You should be like water. Take the shape of wherever you are and make the best of what floats past.”

“You ever have the feeling you were in the wrong place? That if you could just get over the next hill, cross the next river, look down into the next valley, it'd all...fit. Be right.”

“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”

“The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.”

“Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”

“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.”

“My name is Nicomo Cosca, famed solider of fortune, and I am here for dinner.”

“Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.”