Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Taravangian did not believe in any religion, for they were unwieldy things, designed to fill gaps in human understanding with nonsensical explanations, allowing people to sleep well at night, granting them a false sense of comfort and control and preventing them from stretching further for true understanding.

The difference between a successful thief and a dead thief is knowing when to escape with your takings.

Where's your sense of adventure?

Being a human was about making sense of chaos, finding meaning among the random elements of the world.

Someone has to care

But profiting off people's emotions?

I haven't faith in people any longer, old friend

I used to take the terrible things that had happened to me

He couldn’t give in to assuming he was cursed, or had bad luck, or whatever it was. Superstition never got a man anywhere. But he had to admit, the pattern was disturbing. If he acted as he always had before, how could he expect different results? He had to try something new. Change, somehow. This was going to take more thought.

Men in power always pretend things like virtue, or divine guidance, some kind of mandate to 'protect' the rest of us. If we believe that the Almighty put them were they are, it's easier for us to swallow what they do to us.

What you said earlier is right; men are unreliable in many things. But if there’s one thing you can count on, it’s their greed.

Saying confusing things isn't the same as being witty.

“That was a joke, bridgeboy.”
“My mistake. I was under the impression that jokes were supposed to be funny.”
“Only to people with a sense of humor.”
“Ah, of course,” Kaladin said. “I traded in my sense of humor long ago.”
“And what did you get for it?”
“Scars,” Kaladin said softly.

Then I guess the story is a lie

You know how he was. That force of will, that air of natural entitlement. It always seemed to surprise him when someone denied him or when the world itself didn’t do as he wished. He didn’t force me to defer—it was simply how life was.