Brandon Sanderson Quotes

I suppose an optimistic comment wouldn't do much good right now.

The Eleventh Metal? Of course it is - I showed it to you remember?

All life worked in concert, he’d been taught in his youth. Everything but men, who refused their place. Who destroyed instead of added.

It becomes the responsibility of every man, upon realizing he lacks the truth to seek it out.

Shallan smiled at the wonderful surroundings, the light rainfall, the beautiful plant life. A little dampness was a small price to pay for the melodious sound of sprinkling rain, for fresh clean air and a beautiful sky full of clouds that varied in every shade of grey.

These are the men…well, these are the men who actually change the world. And they terrify me. For men never see as far as they think they do.

'The question,' she replied, 'is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what' you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and "how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.'

Funny, isn't it, how so many of our stories start the same way, but have opposing endings? In half, the child ignores her parents, wanders out into the woods, and gets eaten. In the other half she discovers great wonders. There aren't many stories about the kids who say, 'Yes, I shall not go into the forest. I'm glad my parents explained that is where the monsters live.'

The ardents who passed through town were careful to explain that the Calling of a farmer was a noble one, one of the highest save for the Calling of a soldier. Kal’s father whispered under his breath that he saw far more honor in feeding the kingdom than he did in fighting and dying in useless wars.

Someone has to care

I have found that youths like you have a relative lack of appreciation for the distant past.

Men often place pride before reason.

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.

Morality is not a thing you can simply doff to put on the helm of battle, then put back on when you’re done with the slaughter.

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.