Top 500 Brandon Sanderson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality – which answers only to my heart – is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.”

— Brandon Sanderson

52. “There’s always another secret.? -Kelsier.”

— Brandon Sanderson

53. “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.”

— Brandon Sanderson

54. “Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.”

— Brandon Sanderson

55. “Oh, I’m just a happy person.”

— Brandon Sanderson

56. “Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.”

— Brandon Sanderson

57. “You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It’s really funny.”

— Brandon Sanderson

58. “I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”

— Brandon Sanderson

59. “I will protect those I hate. Even if the one I hate most is myself.”

— Brandon Sanderson

60. “And the warrior’s way was not to run from failure, but to own up to it and do better.”

— Brandon Sanderson

61. “Let your actions defend you, not your words.”

— Brandon Sanderson

62. “To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain – leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.”

— Brandon Sanderson

63. “People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN’T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.”

— Brandon Sanderson

64. “Why do they call it research if I’ve only done it this one time?”

— Brandon Sanderson

65. “Journey before destination,” Dalinar said. “It cannot be a journey if it doesn’t have a beginning.”

— Brandon Sanderson

66. “Death comes to all. But life comes first. Cherish it. Death is the destination. But the journey, that is life. That is what matters.”

— Brandon Sanderson

67. “I’ve always been very confident in my immaturity.”

— Brandon Sanderson

68. “We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn’t hear, long after the music actually stopped.”

— Brandon Sanderson

69. “You’re a sword not a palm tree.”

— Brandon Sanderson

70. “I’m so storming pure I practically belch rainbows.”

— Brandon Sanderson

71. “This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived.”

— Brandon Sanderson

72. “Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.”

— Brandon Sanderson

73. “Remember, the past need not become our future as well.”

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74. “The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.”

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75. “And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.”

— Brandon Sanderson

76. “The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.”

— Brandon Sanderson

77. “Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it’s never going to be perfect on your first pass.”

— Brandon Sanderson

78. “Honor is dead. But I’ll see what I can do.”

— Brandon Sanderson

79. “Yes, I began my journey alone, and I ended it alone. But that does not mean that I walked alone.”

— Brandon Sanderson

80. “Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.”

— Brandon Sanderson

81. “I will protect even those I hate,” Kaladin whispered through bloody lips. “So long as it is right.”

— Brandon Sanderson

82. “Money is behind every war,” Au-nak continued. “Religion is but an excuse. Or perhaps a justification.”

— Brandon Sanderson

83. “It is his ultimate lie, Son of Honor. The lie that says you have no choice. The lie that there is no more journey worth taking.”

— Brandon Sanderson

84. “So yes, I, Adolin Kholin – cousin to the king, heir to the Kholin princedom – have shat myself in my Shardplate. Three times, all on purpose.”

— Brandon Sanderson

85. “Don’t try to stop yourself from feeling. You’ll hate who you become.”

— Brandon Sanderson

86. “Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.”

— Brandon Sanderson

87. “Err on the side of awesome.”

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88. “If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.”

— Brandon Sanderson

89. “It’s like a banana farm for guns!”

— Brandon Sanderson

90. “This is going to take a while. I’m a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.”

— Brandon Sanderson

91. “It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.”

— Brandon Sanderson

92. “It is a writer’s greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books.”

— Brandon Sanderson

93. “The number 1 thing that I don’t want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.”

— Brandon Sanderson

94. “You’ll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.”

— Brandon Sanderson

95. “Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”

— Brandon Sanderson

96. “Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”

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97. “I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted.”

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98. “The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar,” Wit said. “And the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first – but also exploit the first – while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.”

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99. “Kaladin floated downward toward him. “Ten spears go to battle,” he whispered, “and nine shatter. Did that war forge the one that remained? No, Amaram. All the war did was identify the spear that would not break.”

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100. “Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right. If nobody starts, then others cannot follow.”

— Brandon Sanderson