Our list of the best quotes from Amazon Prime’s epic fantasy television show The Wheel of Time, based on the book series of the same name by Robert Jordan.
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Top The Wheel of Time Quotes
Moiraine Damodred: The world is broken. Many, many years ago, men who were born with great power believed they could cage Darkness itself. The arrogance. When they failed, the seas boiled, mountains were swallowed up, cities burned, and the women of the Aes Sedai were left to pick up the pieces. These women remembered one thing above all else, the man who brought the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.
Moiraine Damodred: [referring to the Dragon] Now, this man has been born again. We don’t know where or to whom. If he was reborn as a girl, or a boy. The only thing we know for certain is that this child is coming of age now, and we must find them, before the Dark does.
Liandrin Guirale: This Power, it’s meant for women, and women alone. And when you touch it, you make it filthy.
Nynaeve al’Meara: To be a woman is to be always alone and never alone.
Rand al’Thor: [to Egwene] It’s a lonely life, being a Wisdom. No husband. No kids.
Tam al’Thor: All we can do is the best we can with the life that’s given to us. And take comfort from it. That no matter what happens, what pain we face, what heartbreak, even death, the Wheel keeps turning. Always. And we try again. Maybe do a little better than the last time.
Moiraine Damodred: The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
Moiraine Damodred: In one Age, called the Third Age by some, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
Eamon Valda: An Aes Sedai should know, above all others, that sometimes, brutality is the only path to mercy.
Moiraine Damodred: Words are important, and how we use them is important.
Moiraine Damodred: [referring to the Three Oaths made by the Aes Sedai] One, to speak no word that is not true. Two, to make no weapon with which one person may kill another. Three, never to use the One Power as a weapon, except in the last extreme defense of her life, or the life of her Warder, or another Aes Sedai. These oaths are bound by the One Power itself. It’s not that we do not break them, it’s that we cannot break them.
Moiraine Damodred: The Power inside you is the smallest part of your strength. It’s your mind, and how you use it, that will mean much more in the battles to come.
Moiraine Damodred: You don’t listen to the wind, Egwene. It’s the wind that listens to you.
Moiraine Damodred: Dreams have power. More than you know.
Moiraine Damodred: The old blood runs deep in you. Remember that. You’ll need it in the days to come.
Nynaeve al’Meara: [to Lan, referring to Moiraine] I’ve heard about the bond between an Aes Sedai and her Warder, that you feel what she feels. So get ready, because this is going to hurt.
Dana: [to Ran] Nothing like a bit of slap and tickle to sort out relationship woes.
Thom Merrilin: [to Mat] If you’re going to take from the dead, the least you can do is bury them.
Dana: The Wheel keeps turning, and people keep hurting. Every man who comes to this s**te town has a story. Flood, drought, war, sisters murdering their brothers, children killing their parents. But the Dragon, the Dragon has a chance to change all that. Break the Wheel. Make it stop.
Stepin: [referring to Nynaeve] Do you know, I never really understood your taste in traveling companions.
Lan Mandragoran: She’s not a companion. She’s barely company.
Stepin: Probably stubborn as a mule too.
Lan Mandragoran: [to Nynaeve] You are welcome around our fire. If you promise not to shove anyone into it.
Ila: “The leaf, in its time, falls to the dirt that nourishes the tree, that in its time, grows the leaf again.” Nothing is ever lost. The Wheel returns all.
Aram: As I heard every time I lost a toy when I was a child. I’m still waiting.
Ila: [to Perrin] Have you ever been in battle? Picked up a weapon? A sword? Bow and arrow? An ax? And, tell me, has your life been better, or worse since you picked up that ax?
Thom Merrilin: Men, women both, once they’ve tasted the Power, if they’re cut off from it, it’s no life anymore. They just slip away.
Thom Merrilin: Nothing is more dangerous than a man who knows the past.
Stepin: No bond is closer than an Aes Sedai and her Warder. Not husbands and wives, not parents and children.
Moiraine Damodred: I don’t think the Dark One has any more idea who the Dragon is than we do.
Lan Mandragoran: I don’t know if that’s terrifying or comforting.
Ila: Those who renounce violence usually know its evil only too well.
Ila: There’s only one way to end violence. Everybody everywhere has to stop. And it will take time.
Ila: If I can change two people’s minds, just two, well, then I’ve left the world a better place than I found. And if those two each change two more minds, well, then, eventually…
Ila: What greater revenge against violence than peace? What greater revenge against death than life?
Lan Mandragoran: It’s what the last king of Manetheren said to his wife, before the battle they knew they’d lose. “We shall go into the land so our children can always hold us and will never be alone.”
Nynaeve al’Meara: You’re not exactly what I thought you were, al’Lan Mandragoran.
Lan Mandragoran: And what was that?
Nynaeve al’Meara: A lapdog with two legs.
Moiraine Damodred: The Wheel doesn’t want anything. It can’t. Any more than a river, or the rain can want something. It’s people who want.
Moiraine Damodred: [to Lan] This saddle is home. This cloak. These boots. This brooding man at my side.
Moiraine Damodred: [to Nynaeve] It’s alright to be afraid. You reached out and you touched the Source. You saw how small you are in comparison to it. And how great you are in comparison to those you’ve always loved. And now you’re wondering, how do you fit into the world? Can you ever go back to being who you were? I know because I felt it too, the first time. And the answer is no. You’ll never be the same. But it’s time that you saw that for the gift it is.
Aram: Violence is in us all. The Way of the Leaf isn’t about denying that. It’s about accepting it.
Ila: [to Valda] You can cover the Light with the palm of a child’s hand, but a Leaf, even if you crush it, bury it, burn it, it becomes a part of the earth, and the air.
Loial: Always in such a rush, these humans. Never taking time to properly prepare for what they’re walking into.
Nynaeve al’Meara: [to Rand] Egwene is many things, but above all else, she’s unbreakable.
Eamon Valda: No decision is still a decision.
Stepin: Love’s usually a bad idea. But still, we allow it to happen, or this life would be intolerable.
Berden Sanche: [to young Siuan] A wise woman knows the breaking point of her line. Don’t push yours.
Siuan Sanche: If it’s one Dragon, or five, man or woman, the heart of every prophecy is the same. The Dragon will either defeat the Dark One, or join him.
Moiraine Damodred: I’ll kill them myself before I let him have them.
Siuan Sanche: Good.
Nynaeve al’Meara: If you can’t lead the world from a room built of wood and dirt, how can you call yourself a leader?
Siuan Sanche: The Wheel does not care if you are young, or afraid, petty, or weak. It certainly doesn’t care what you want. The Wheel calls you to this. Whether you can bear it or not. The Last Battle is coming. What any of us wants now is meaningless. The only thing that matters is what you do.
Moiraine Damodred: There’s no turning back. Whatever happens now is beyond our control. The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills.
Moiraine Damodred: [to Nynaeve] Running, hiding, won’t save you from the weaving of the Pattern.
Moiraine Damodred: There’s more to life than me, this mission.
Lan Mandragoran: Before you, I had nothing to live for, and nothing to die for. You have given me both.
Egwene Al’Vere: [to Rand] If it’s you, I will always stand by you, you know that. No matter what happens. No matter what comes.
Machin Shin: [as Rand remembers the words he heard] It’s you. You’ve always known it’s you, deep down. No matter how fast, or how far you run, you cannot escape your fate. You are the Dragon Reborn. You are the Dragon Reborn.
Min Farshaw: [to Rand] I definitely don’t care how you feel. You’re just another guy, in another bar, that wants something from me.
Min Farshaw: [to Rand] Look me in the eye and tell me that you want to know what I’ve got to say. Because once you do, there’s no turning back.
Lan Mandragoran: [to Nynaeve] I will hate the man you choose. Because he’s not me. And I will love him if he makes you smile. You are as beautiful as the sunrise. You are as fierce as a warrior. You are a lioness, Wisdom.
Rand al’Thor: [to Moiraine] You always have a plan within a plan, within a plan. Don’t try to convince me that for this you’ve got nothing.
Moiraine Damodred: [to Rand] I promise you, when your life’s on the line, the Power will be there. And when it comes to you, you channel it into the sa’angreal.
Min Farshaw: It’s not how it works, I’m afraid. All I know is that everything I’ve ever seen, the best things and the worst, they’ve all come true eventually.
Dark One: [to Moiraine] Must be an awful feeling. To know the One Power is there, just at the end of your fingertips, but you can’t quite touch it.
Loial: In my own experience, if you want to help, but don’t know how, all you need to do is ask.
Dark One: The world, it all feels so stable. The truth is it’s not. Everything that means anything can be gone in an instant.
Padan Fain: [to Perrin] You’re ta’veren. All five of you, focal points for the Wheel. Usually there’s only one, maybe two in a generation, but five of you in one village. That’s what Moiraine saw. What my Lord saw. That’s why we sent the Trollocs, not to kill you. To bring you to him. We need the Dark. We need balance. Balance means that you will turn to the Shadow, some of you. Maybe all of you.
Moiraine Damodred: This wasn’t the Last Battle. I fear it was the first.
