Andrzej Sapkowski Zitate

„Aber ich akzeptiere keine kollektive Verantwortung, ich fühle mich nicht verpflichtet, ein Ereignis zu bereuen, das sich ein halbes Jahrhundert vor meiner Geburt zugetragen hat.“

„Stürze dich nie auf einen Vorteil, sobald er offenbar wird. Warte ab, bis du den maximalen Effekt erzielen kannst.“

„Du dachtest." Der Landknecht schaute ihn mitleidig an. "Womit denn? Wenn du Hohlkopf eine Schabe in der Suppe verschlucken würdest, dann hättest du mehr Verstande im Bauch als im Kopfe.“

„Jeder kneift den Hintern dicht, wenn er gegen viele ficht.“

„Einen Fehlgeborenen hässlich zu nennen, ist, als würde man Scheiße als nicht besonders lecker bezeichnen: Es ist keine Lüge, aber die ganze Wahrheit ist es auch nicht.“

„Statt so zu leben, wie es die Natur uns heißt, haben wir begonnen, diese Natur zu vernichten.“

“People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”

“To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.”

“People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.”

“Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.”

“The sword of destiny has two edges. You are one of them.”

“No. I’ve no time to waste. Winter’s coming.”

“I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different, I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything.”

“There is never a second opportunity to make a first impression.”

“Only Evil and Greater Evil exist and beyond them, in the shadows, lurks True Evil. True Evil, Geralt, is something you can barely imagine, even if you believe nothing can still surprise you. And sometimes True Evil seizes you by the throat and demands that you choose between it and another, slightly lesser, Evil.”

“Mistakes,’ he said with effort, ‘are also important to me. I don’t cross them out of my life, or memory. And I never blame others for them.”

“I need this conversation. They say silence is golden. Maybe it is, although I'm not sure it's worth that much. It has its price certainly; you have to pay for it.”

“What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth?”

“During his life, the witcher had met thieves who looked like town councillors, councillors who looked like beggars, harlots who looked like princesses, princesses who looked like calving cows, and kings who looked like thieves.”

“I know you’re almost forty, look almost thirty, think you’re just over twenty and act as though you’re barely ten.”

“They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.”

“It’s better to die than to live in the knowledge that you’ve done something that needs forgiveness.”

“Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.”