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The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1) QUOTES

The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1) QUOTES

1 " Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations.
Their right to be free men,
Their desire to live in peace,
Their courage to seek out truth,
Herein lies the Sword of Shannara. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

2 " Central governments have always been the greatest danger to mankind. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

3 " They became sleepwalkers in a world of half-dreams and rambling thoughts with no break in the wearing march or the never-ending, silent black trunks that came and passed in countless thousands. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

4 " Either you believed in something or you didn’t—you couldn’t have it both ways and be honest with yourself. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

5 " We build too many walls to be honest with ourselves. -Allanon "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

6 " There was a madness in the scheme of life that men were forced to accept either with resigned fury or blunt indifference. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

7 " The highlander seemed to float through life very much the same as a cloud in an empty sky, touching nothing, leaving no trace of his passing. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

8 " It’s more habit than stupidity when I laugh at these things. I laugh at them to stay a sane man. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

9 " ... even a friendly smile shows the teeth behind! "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

10 " that the wars of the past were slowly being forgotten. Shea believed that one could turn his back on the past and build a new world with the future, never understanding that the future was inextricably tied to the past, an interwoven tapestry of events and ideas that would never be entirely severed. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

11 " Truisms, my young friend, are the useless children of hindsight. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

12 " All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

13 " He laughed in maddened frenzy, knowing somehow that he was no longer in a world of living creatures, but a world of death where soulless beings wandered in hopeless search of escape from their eternal prison. He stumbled on amidst them, laughing, talking, even singing gaily, his mind no longer a part of his mortal being. All about him, the creatures of the dark world followed in cringing companionship, knowing that the maddened mortal was almost one of them. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

14 " Shea, particularly, had passed the point where his chief emotion was fear; now he felt only a sense of numbness that dulled his mind into self-imposed surrender, a robot-like acceptance of the fact that he was being led to the proverbial slaughter. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

15 " Il sole tramontava già fra le profondità verdi delle colline a ovest della vallata, e le sue ombre rosse e rosate sfioravano gli angoli più remoti della campagna, quando Flick Ohmsford cominciò la sua discesa. Il sentiero calava giù irregolarmente per il pendio settentrionale, serpeggiando attraverso i massi imponenti che costeggiavano il terreno, sparendo nelle folte foreste delle pianure per ricomparire a tratti nelle piccole radure e negli spazi liberi della zona dei boschi. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

16 " He didn’t try to think, didn’t care to remember, but wished only to lose himself in the peace and quiet "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

17 " I ricordi non sono tesori di vetro da tenere conservati dentro una cassa. Sono nastri colorati da appendere al vento. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

18 " What I have told you is not legend; it is the truth. The sword is real; it rests today at Paranor. But most important of all, the Warlock Lord is real. He lives today and the Skull Kingdom is his domain! "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

19 " there were several times when Shea wished that Panamon Creel would tire of his own voice for a few minutes. The tall thief carried on a steady conversation with his companions, with himself, and on occasion with no one in particular, for the entire morning. He talked about everything imaginable, including a good many things about which he seemed to know nothing. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)

20 " for the history of Man has not been particularly glorious in the last two thousand years. Men today have forgotten the past; they know little of the present and less of the future. The race of Man lives almost solely in the confines of the Southland. It knows nothing at all of the Northland and its peoples, and little of the Eastland and Westland. A pity that Men have developed into such a shortsighted people, for once they were the most visionary of the races. But now they are quite content to live apart from the other races, isolated from the problems of the rest of the world. They remain content, mind you, because those problems have not as yet touched them and because a fear of the past has persuaded them not to look too closely at the future. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)