The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.
R. Scott Bakker
R. Scott Bakker
The world has long
The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.
R. Scott Bakker
It is only after
It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.
R. Scott Bakker
Achamian tossed his hands
Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?
R. Scott Bakker
The bondage we are
The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.
R. Scott Bakker
I wanted a literate,
I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world – something I could have fun destroying.
R. Scott Bakker
Though all men be
Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
R. Scott Bakker
Saying ‘I could have
Saying ‘I could have done more,’ Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.
R. Scott Bakker
Consequences lost all purchase
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
R. Scott Bakker
He had despised the
He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.
R. Scott Bakker