Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Politics is involved, Adolin—so by definition it can’t be easy.

“Don’t deflect your evils by pointing out the faults of others,” Shallan said.

Morality is an axis that doesn't interest us

They all stretched farther and farther until they collapsed. In all the history of mankind, has any conqueror decided they had enough? Has any man just said, 'This is good. This is what I wanted,' and gone home?

But merely being tradition does not make some thing worthy, Kadash. We can’t just assume that because some thing is old it is right.

Oh, Adolin, Shallan thought. He’d arrived at a theory he liked, and now wouldn’t let it go. It was a common mistake warned of in her scientific books.

She felt like drawing this scene, but knew it was the type of moment she couldn’t capture on a page. It wasn’t about content or composition, but the pleasure of living.
The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but in ensuring one’s life would produce many future moments to anticipate.

Within moments he was roaring his pleasure. Nothing these men did could touch him. He was a destroyer, a conqueror, a glorious maelstrom of death. A god.

Expensive, yes. But by definition, therefore, not priceless.

She didn’t exactly understand what she was doing, but she rarely did. Art wasn’t about understanding, but about knowing.

Too few people listened to anything other than their own thoughts.

You seem to have found purpose in talkin' a whole bunch

But profiting off people's emotions?

You couldn’t live your life getting up and seeing the same things every day. You had to keep moving, otherwise people started to know who you were, and then they started to expect things from you. It was one step from there to being gobbled up.

I watched you keep your word with perfection. This is a thing lost to most people—it is the only genuine beauty in the world.