Life Lessons Quote by Joe Abercrombie — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Not forever does the bulbul sing”

“And that's that as you get older, you lose things, things you don't necessarily want to lose.”

“It's not over until you win”

“The planet is here for our delight, but it is also here for us to change, to make it the best it can be. It's not just about sleeping and fucking and getting the right dress. Let's HOPE not.”

“I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.”

“Success is the ability to triumph over obstacles, and ultimately achieve access to your dreams that have been made manifest.”