Better to die than to live in fear.
I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.
It never struck me as interesting that I didn’t go to school – we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they’re the others, the separate ones.
There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.
I am not who I was, but I know who I am.
Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.
Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.
I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.
Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us. – Valdr.
It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe.
I refuse to repent, and I won’t plague myself over what is done and past.
For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me.
Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.
A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.
Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.
It’s impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.
Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.
From now on you’re going to have to think. There’s a reason why we’re born with brains in our heads, not rocks.
It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle. For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.
You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.