Top 500 Brandon Sanderson Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.”

— Brandon Sanderson

52. “Remember to smile.”

— Brandon Sanderson

53. “There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.”

— Brandon Sanderson

54. “So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important – self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.”

— Brandon Sanderson

55. “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

56. “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

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

61. “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

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

— Brandon Sanderson

63. “Oh, I’m just a happy person.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

68. “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

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

— Brandon Sanderson

70. “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

71. “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

72. “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

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

— Brandon Sanderson

74. “The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it? It’s the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar. Trembling, bleeding, agonized, Dalinar forced air into his lungs and spoke a single ragged sentence. “You cannot have my pain.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

77. “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.”

— Brandon Sanderson

78. “You’re a sword not a palm tree.”

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

82. “A man’s emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength.”

— Brandon Sanderson

83. “Well, best to remain vigilant. It’s when everything is calm that you need to be most alert.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

85. “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

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

89. “To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.”

— Brandon Sanderson

90. “Nothing is eternal, not even time itself.”

— Brandon Sanderson

91. “For the greater good.” “That has been the excuse of tyrants throughout all time.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

93. “Somehow, we’ll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

95. “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

96. “A man’s emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”

— Brandon Sanderson

97. “Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.”

— Brandon Sanderson

98. “Our weakness doesn’t make us weak. Our weakness makes us strong. For we had to carry it all these years.”

— Brandon Sanderson

99. “The most important word a man can say are, “I will do better.”

— Brandon Sanderson

100. “Belief isn’t simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief – what is faith – if you don’t continue in it after failure?”

— Brandon Sanderson