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The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1) QUOTES

The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1) QUOTES

1 " 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 , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

2 " Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

3 " There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they’re not entirely certain they’re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God’s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

4 " Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

5 " Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

6 " The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

7 " History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

8 " Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

9 " This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

10 " To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so? "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

11 " Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

12 " The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

13 " If we’re nothing more than our thoughts and passions, and if our thoughts and passions are nothing more than movements of our souls, then we are nothing more than those who move us. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

14 " Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

15 " Let us be moved, you and I, by the things themselves. Let us discover each other. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

16 " Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as debtors. What's given is taken. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

17 " No soul moves alone through the world, Leweth. Our every thought stems from the thoughts of others. Our every word is but a repetition of world spoken before. Every time we listen, we allow the movements of another should to carry our own...NO one's soul moves alone, Leweth. When one love dies, on must learn to love another. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

18 " . . . and that revelation murdered all that I once did know. Where once I asked of the God, 'Who are you?' now I ask, 'Who am I? "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

19 " Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it’ll always be the beggar who buys your first drink. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

20 " To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so? —AJENCIS, THE EPISTEMOLOGIES   But "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)