Top 500 Brandon Sanderson Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.”

— Brandon Sanderson

102. “Brother. ‘You must find the most important words a man can say.”

— Brandon Sanderson

103. “Spook, child. You want to be like me? Really like me? Then fight when you are beaten!”

— Brandon Sanderson

104. “Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down.”

— Brandon Sanderson

105. “When I write my books, actually, I’m known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.”

— Brandon Sanderson

106. “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

107. “If nobody asked questions, then we would never learn anything.”

— Brandon Sanderson

108. “Vin: I don’t know – and it’s all your fault, you know. I used to understand everything. Now it’s all confused. Kelsier: Yes, we’ve messed you up right properly.”

— Brandon Sanderson

109. “Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man’s life.”

— Brandon Sanderson

110. “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

111. “In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.”

— Brandon Sanderson

112. “I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.”

— Brandon Sanderson

113. “Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don’t shove where a pat would be sufficient.”

— Brandon Sanderson

114. “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

115. “Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can – what we do that books cannot is interpret.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

117. “I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

119. “The law is not something holy, son. It’s just a reflection of the ideals of those lucky enough to be in charge.”

— Brandon Sanderson

120. “However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult, by definition, to fake.”

— Brandon Sanderson

121. “Eternity ended ten years ago.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

123. “That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.”

— Brandon Sanderson

124. “If you could explain something perfectly, then you’d never need art.”

— Brandon Sanderson

125. “A river is easier to channel than to stop.”

— Brandon Sanderson

126. “I ain’t grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.”

— Brandon Sanderson

127. “One can believe in a story without believing it happened.”

— Brandon Sanderson

128. “Sometimes we just have to wait long enough, Mistress,” he said. “Then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing.”

— Brandon Sanderson

129. “But, what is money? A physical representation of the abstract concept of effort.”

— Brandon Sanderson

130. “Pain lost its power when other things became more important.”

— Brandon Sanderson

131. “I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.”

— Brandon Sanderson

132. “You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I’ve practiced.”

— Brandon Sanderson

133. “Life was so much harder, but potentially so much more fulfilling, when you found the courage to choose.”

— Brandon Sanderson

134. “My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.”

— Brandon Sanderson

135. “She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier’s coaxing. Now she could step off a cliff and muse thoughtfully to herself on the way down.”

— Brandon Sanderson

136. “Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.”

— Brandon Sanderson

137. “You get to choose who you are. Legacy, memories of the past, can serve us well. But we cannot let them define us. When heritage becomes a box instead of an inspiration, it has gone too far.”

— Brandon Sanderson

138. “Because people were people, and if there was one thing you could count on, it was that some of them would be weird. Or rather that all of them would be weird when circumstances happened to align with their own individual brand of insanity. That.”

— Brandon Sanderson

139. “The definition of a lawman, Uncle, is easy,” Wax said, feeling blood from a dozen cuts trickle down his face. He lifted Suit by the front of his clothing, bringing him close. “He’s the man who takes the bullet so nobody else has to.”

— Brandon Sanderson

140. “Every moment in our lives seems trivial,” Zahel said. “Most are forgotten while some, equally humble, become the points upon which history pivots.”

— Brandon Sanderson

141. “Cruelty is only for men, as is mercy. Only we can choose one or the other, and beasts cannot.”

— Brandon Sanderson

142. “Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.”

— Brandon Sanderson

143. “People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real.”

— Brandon Sanderson

144. “Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error.”

— Brandon Sanderson

145. “Personally, I say, “Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them.” However, that one’s having a rough time catching on.”

— Brandon Sanderson

146. “Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.”

— Brandon Sanderson

147. “I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don’t write them yet, but I build towards them.”

— Brandon Sanderson

148. “I’ve found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.”

— Brandon Sanderson

149. “Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.”

— Brandon Sanderson

150. “Though most expect young men to be fools, I’ve noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.”

— Brandon Sanderson