D'ni proverbs: Difference between revisions
(Added WM source for proverb from old Cyan homepage) |
m (→Proverbs: Add quote from Riven (2024) starting screen) |
||
| Line 65: | Line 65: | ||
| text = Every journey is simply a series of steps, but the first step is not always simple. | | text = Every journey is simply a series of steps, but the first step is not always simple. | ||
| source = DRC Homepage<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20040615164618if_/http://drcsite.org/ To D'ni]", DRC Homepage, accessed October 11, 2020. Archived from [http://drcsite.org/ the original] on June 15, 2004.</ref> | | source = DRC Homepage<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20040615164618if_/http://drcsite.org/ To D'ni]", DRC Homepage, accessed October 11, 2020. Archived from [http://drcsite.org/ the original] on June 15, 2004.</ref> | ||
}} | |||
{{quote | |||
| text = Many Ages... infinite truths. | |||
| source = [[Riven (2024)]] | |||
}} | }} | ||
Latest revision as of 01:25, 23 July 2024
These proverbs have been sourced from a number of locations, including some that are no longer available.
Proverbs[edit | edit source]
Lose your questions and you will find your answers.
— Riven Manual
The reader is entertained by the journey of another, but the writer is the changer of worlds.
— Old Cyan homepage[1]
The rock is hard, the rock-biter is patient.
To live in the past is to die in the present.
— Atrus' personal journal[2]
A Tree falls; a page arises.
A scarab is captured; ink is released.
Life is taken; an Age is given.— D'niGuild.com
A seedling does not attempt to replace a tree that went before it. It seeks only to grow.
— RAWA
The head is hard, the rock is harder
— D'niGuild.com
The branches of the Great Tree grow without end, yet the Maker knows them all.
— D'niGuild.com
Time teaches many things. It is the rock in which we bore.
— Book of Ti'ana (p14, hardback)
Between guessing and knowing is a long dark tunnel.
— Kahlis, The Book of Ti'ana
Gaining one's freedom is but the first step to achieving it.
Every journey is simply a series of steps, but the first step is not always simple.
— DRC Homepage[3]
Many Ages... infinite truths.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "Cyan - Changing Our Worlds", Cyan homepage, accessed November 15, 2020. Archived from the original on August 15, 2000.
- ↑ Atrus. Personal journal. Riven: The Sequel to Myst.
- ↑ "To D'ni", DRC Homepage, accessed October 11, 2020. Archived from the original on June 15, 2004.
