The Pale Horseman Quotes

Wyrd bib ful araed. Fate is fate. It cannot be changed or cheated.

Words are like breath, you say them and they’re gone. But writing traps them.

We had to fight, because to decline battle was a defeat.

There is such joy in chaos. Stow all the world’s evils behind a door and tell men that they must never, ever, open the door, and it will be opened because there is pure joy in destruction.

There comes a moment in life when we see ourselves as others see us. I suppose that is part of growing up, and it is not always comfortable.

The world began in chaos and it will end in chaos. The gods brought the world into existence, and they will end it when they fight among themselves, but in between the chaos of the world’s birth and the chaos of the world’s death is order, and order is made by oaths, and oaths bind us like the buckles of a harness.

The fear came then. The shield wall is a terrible place. It is where a warrior makes his reputation, and reputation is dear to us. Reputation is honour, but to gain that honour a man must stand in the shield wall where death runs rampant.

Religion makes strange bedfellows.

Men fear wanderers for they have no rules.

Life is simple. Ale, women, sword and reputation. Nothing else matters.

I knew a man who had a dumb wife. He was ever so happy.

And men would have called me a coward. And that too was the truth, that a man cannot step back from a fight and stay a man. We make much in this life if we are able. We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation. I could not walk away.