Top 500 Brandon Sanderson Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Overcome your guilt, Kaladin. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don’t blame yourself.’ Protect, save, help – but know when to give up.”

— Brandon Sanderson

302. “It’s funny, Vasher thought, How many things begin with my getting thrown into prison.”

— Brandon Sanderson

303. “That a thing is hated is not proof that it’s great art, but the lack of hatred is certainly proof that it is not.”

— Brandon Sanderson

304. “I’m Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I’m most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.”

— Brandon Sanderson

305. “My dear man!” Breeze said, leaning down. “Have I taught you nothing? Being in charge isn’t about doing anything – it’s about making certain that other people do what they’re supposed to! Delegation, my friend. Without it, we would have to bake our own bread and dig our own latrines!” Then, Breeze leaned in. “And, trust me. You don’t want to taste anything I’ve had a hand in baking. Ever. Particularly after I’ve cleaned a latrine.”

— Brandon Sanderson

306. “Enjoy the moment,” Evi told him. “Close your eyes and contemplate what the One has given you. Seek the peace of oblivion, and bask in the joy of your own sensation.”

— Brandon Sanderson

307. “I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.”

— Brandon Sanderson

308. “You can’t put a price on a person’s life,” Kaladin.”

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309. “But must not even a madman rely on his own mind, his own experience, rather than that of others?”

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310. “Weakness can imitate strength if bound properly, just as cowardice can imitate heroism if given nowhere to flee.”

— Brandon Sanderson

311. “Being in charge isn’t always about telling people what to do. Sometimes, it’s about knowing when to step out of the way of people who know what they’re doing. – Tam al’Thor.”

— Brandon Sanderson

312. “The life of a person is more than the chaos of it’s passing. Emotion, Ruin. This is your defeat.”

— Brandon Sanderson

313. “If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!”

— Brandon Sanderson

314. “I?” the man said. “I am a drifter. A miscreant. The flame’s last breath, made of smoke at its passing.”

— Brandon Sanderson

315. “Power was an illusion of perception, as Jasnah had said. The first step to being in control was to see yourself as capable of being in control.”

— Brandon Sanderson

316. “She assumes,” Wax said, “that our detective style isn’t normally the punchy-punchy, stabby-stabby type.” “To be fair,” Wayne said, “it’s usually a more shooty-shooty, whacky-whacky type.”

— Brandon Sanderson

317. “We take to the skies, Stormblessed,” Lunamor said. “We will walk no more in coming days. This is the end.”

— Brandon Sanderson

318. “You’re starting to sound a lot like my mother.” “Captivating?” Syl said. “Amazing, witty, meaningful?” “Repetitive.” “Captivating?” Syl said. “Amazing, witty, meaningful?” “Very funny.”

— Brandon Sanderson

319. “I risked and I lost but the risk was still worth it.”

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320. “You must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him – no matter how wrong you think he may be, no matter how poor you think his decisions, you must respect his desire to make them. Even if one of them includes loving you.”

— Brandon Sanderson

321. “How did a man like you ever end up at a table of negotiation?” “I was trained by a surly Mistborn, a sarcastic Terrisman, and a group of disrespectful thieves,” Elend said, sighing. “Plus, on top of that, I was a fairly insufferable person to begin with. But, kindly continue with your insult – I didn’t mean to interrupt.”

— Brandon Sanderson

322. “What was a prayer, if not creation? Making something where nothing existed. Creating a wish out of despair, a plea out of anguish. Bowing one’s back before the Almighty, and forming humility from the empty pride of a human life.”

— Brandon Sanderson

323. “The more limitations you put on a character, often times the better a character you’ll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can’t simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.”

— Brandon Sanderson

324. “He needed more than vague explanations and abstract ideas – but those were the very soul of art. If you could explain something perfectly, then you’d never need art. That was the difference between a table and a beautiful woodcutting. You could explain the table: its purpose, its shape, its nature. The woodcutting you simply had to experience.”

— Brandon Sanderson

325. “The two great constants of life. Food and death.”

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326. “You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It’s in how they make use of what life has shown them.”

— Brandon Sanderson

327. “Truth can never be defeated, Sarene. Even if people do forget about it occasionally.”

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328. “The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.”

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329. “There were books involved.”

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330. “He ate my horse.”

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331. “So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.”

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332. “Let the Vorin believe as they wish – the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.”

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333. “I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived.”

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334. “Ignorance may reside in a man hiding from intelligence, but scholarship can seem ignorance hidden behind intelligence.”

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335. “Do not look to the executioner for the reason his blade falls. And.”

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336. “Who do you think is stronger?” Adolin asked. “The man who has walked easily his entire life, or the man with no legs? The man who must pull himself by his arms?”

— Brandon Sanderson

337. “Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it’s inconvenient for you.”

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338. “The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible.”

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339. “To cover his embarrassment, he attuned Curiosity and tried Rock’s drink of the day. “This is good! What is in it?” “Ha! Is water I boiled cremlings in, before serving them last night.”

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340. “We’re not moments, Megan, you and me. We’re events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I’m sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.”

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341. “Logically,” Shallan said, “the bright side is the only side you can look on, because the other side is dark.”

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342. “I’ve found you can ignore half of what Dox tells you and not miss much-except for maybe they occasional complaint that you’re spending too much.”

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343. “Oh, child. The world is monstrous at times, and there are those who would have you believe that you are terrible by association.” “I am.” “No. For you see, it flows the other direction. You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.”

— Brandon Sanderson

344. “When you’re young, you can assume that everyone older than you has life figured out. Once you get command yourself, you realize we’re all just the same kids wearing older bodies.”

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345. “The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you’re always planning something.”

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346. “Sazed, I’ve raised some fifteen daughters,” Tindwyl said, entering the room. “No teenage girl is stable. Some are just better at hiding it than others.”

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347. “People with passion are people who will destroy – for a man’s passion is not true until he proves how much he’s willing to sacrifice for it.”

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348. “I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.”

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349. “Tremble and fear, all enemies!” he shouted. “For we shall shake the air with thunder and blood! Your doom is imminent!”

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350. “What good is seeking a greater law, when that law can be the whims of a man either stupid or ruthless?”

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