A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.

— Janny Wurts

An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.

— Janny Wurts

An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.

— Janny Wurts

Because you’ve survived, there is a next strategy.

— Janny Wurts

Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.

— Janny Wurts

Hate has no ears.

— Janny Wurts

How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?

— Janny Wurts

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

— Janny Wurts

It’s tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.

— Janny Wurts

Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honored by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.

— Janny Wurts