Zitate von Andrzej Sapkowski

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

—  Andrzej Sapkowski

„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.“

—  Andrzej Sapkowski

„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.“

—  Andrzej Sapkowski

„Doch wie sich der Vampir Regis ausdrückte, lieber ohne Ziel vorwärts gehen, als ohne Ziel auf der Stelle stehenbleiben, und allemal besser, als sich ohne Ziel zurückzuziehen.“

—  Andrzej Sapkowski, buch The Tower of the Swallow

Wieża Jaskółki

„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.“

—  Andrzej Sapkowski

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

—  Andrzej Sapkowski

„Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.“

—  Andrzej Sapkowski, buch The Last Wish

Quelle: The Last Wish

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

—  Andrzej Sapkowski, buch The Last Wish

Quelle: The Last Wish

„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.“

—  Andrzej Sapkowski, buch The Last Wish

Quelle: The Last Wish

„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.“

—  Andrzej Sapkowski, buch The Last Wish

Quelle: The Last Wish

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

—  Andrzej Sapkowski, buch The Last Wish

Geralt
Quelle: The Last Wish (1993)
Kontext: “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.”

„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.“

—  Andrzej Sapkowski, buch The Last Wish

Quelle: The Last Wish (1993)

„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.“

—  Andrzej Sapkowski, buch Blood of Elves

Quelle: Krew elfów

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

—  Andrzej Sapkowski, buch Sword of Destiny

Quelle: Sword of Destiny

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

—  Andrzej Sapkowski

„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.“

—  Andrzej Sapkowski, buch Blood of Elves

Quelle: Blood of Elves

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

—  Andrzej Sapkowski, buch Blood of Elves

Quelle: Blood of Elves

„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.“

—  Andrzej Sapkowski, buch The Last Wish

Quelle: The Last Wish

„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?“

—  Andrzej Sapkowski, buch Sword of Destiny

Quelle: Sword of Destiny