Ender Wiggin

Character in Ender's Game From: Ender's Game

Child prodigy and military commander; protagonist

266 quotes

"Most of the time it wasn't the other armies I had to fight. It was my own."
Strength
"I will do whatever it takes to stop the war."
Courage
"The isolation is worse than the training."
Solitude
"I am a monster, but I'm a human monster."
"I think like you do. We're not really very different, Mazer and I."
Wisdom
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that moment I also love him."
War
"Games are the only perfection."
Philosophy
"I am my enemy."
Fear
"What if I can't? What if I lose?"
Courage
"I came here to win a game."
Success
"Beating them is what I'm good for."
"I didn't lose. I won every battle."
Success
"The enemy gate is down."
Motivation
"I'll win anyway."
Perseverance
"Nothing was my choice."
Freedom
"Forgive me."
"I could've destroyed them all along."
Power
"I don't want to kill anybody."
"They will all be dead."
"This isn't a game anymore."
"I'm a murderer."
"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they want to be loved."
Wisdom
"I've already lost her. I lost her when I became a killer."
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him."
"I do not fear the darkness. I fear those who dwell within it."
Fear
"They never asked me what I wanted."
Freedom
"Everything I did was allowed."
"I didn't know I was the best."
"I will not forgive myself."
"In my life I have been all things unclean."