Top 500 Brandon Sanderson Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Maybe I’ll remove dying from my list of tasks to do this week.”

— Brandon Sanderson

302. “Sometimes stupid is right,” Megan said, then paused. “Hell. I hope nobody ever quotes me on that one.”

— Brandon Sanderson

303. “Nothing else dangerous we could find. Other than Wayne’s body odor.” “That’s the smell of incredibleness,” Wayne called from inside.”

— Brandon Sanderson

304. “Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?”

— Brandon Sanderson

305. “Most Allomancers didn’t use whiskey in their metal vials. Most Allomancers were missing out on a perfect opportunity.”

— Brandon Sanderson

306. “One can have a wit, but not a witless.”

— Brandon Sanderson

307. “Aim for the sun. That way if you miss, at least your arrow will fall far away, and the person it kills will likely be someone you don’t know.”

— Brandon Sanderson

308. “You can’t be in Bridge Four. We’re bodyguards for your own family. What are you going to do? Guard yourself?”

— Brandon Sanderson

309. “Ain’t nothing wrong with being a woman, gancho,” Lopen said. “Some of my relatives are women.”

— Brandon Sanderson

310. “I ain’t drunk,” Wayne said, sniffling. “I’m investigatin’ alternative states of sobriety.”

— Brandon Sanderson

311. “There’s no profit in peace.”

— Brandon Sanderson

312. “All warfare is based on deception, Sun Tzu had said. When we are able to attack, we must seem unable. When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”

— Brandon Sanderson

313. “Well, when the fear of death seizes you – when the dark thoughts come – you stare the darkness right back, and you tell it, ‘I will not listen to you, for I am infinite Batmans.”

— Brandon Sanderson

314. “It turned out that strange little girls grow up to be strange young women.”

— Brandon Sanderson

315. “Time, the Stormfather said. Which, though dross to him, is the most valuable thing a man can have.”

— Brandon Sanderson

316. “Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.”

— Brandon Sanderson

317. “Abandon the guilt,” Prof said. “Abandon the denial. Steelheart did this to her. He’s our goal. That has to be your focus. We don’t have time for grief; we only have time for vengeance.”

— Brandon Sanderson

318. “Love must be allowed to flow both ways – if it is not, then it is not truly love, I think. It is something else. Infatuation, perhaps? Either way, there are some of us who are far too quick to make martyrs of ourselves. We stand at the side, watching, thinking that we do the right thing by inaction. We fear pain – our own, or that of another.” He.”

— Brandon Sanderson

319. “When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are only compounded by the stillness of night.”

— Brandon Sanderson

320. “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

321. “I’m an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. ‘Lopen,’ my mother always says, ’you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.”

— Brandon Sanderson

322. “I’ve seen Steelheart bleed.”

— Brandon Sanderson

323. “Very well, you two,” Pattern said. “No mating. NO MATING.” He hummed to himself, as if pleased, then sank down onto a plate.”

— Brandon Sanderson

324. “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

325. “Despite that loyalty, Hrathen had never felt what Dilaf now expressed. Hrathen had no hatreds so severe that he wept, no loves so profound that he would risk everything in their name. He had always believed that he was the perfect follower of Jaddeth; that his Lord needed levelheadedness more than He needed unbridled ardor. Now, however, he wondered.”

— Brandon Sanderson

326. “Metal. In some ways, that was the true mark of mankind. Man tamed the stones, the bones of the earth below. Man tamed the fire, that ephemeral, consuming soul of life. And combining the two, he drew forth the marrow of the rocks themselves, then made molten tools.”

— Brandon Sanderson

327. “Logic doesn’t work on Wayne.” “I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller,” Wayne explained. “It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.”

— Brandon Sanderson

328. “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

329. “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

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

— Brandon Sanderson

331. “I am an artist,” Wit said. “I should thank you not to demean me by insisting my art must be trying to accomplish something. In fact, you shouldn’t enjoy art. You should simply admit that it exists, then move on. Anything else is patronizing.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

333. “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

334. “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.”

— Brandon Sanderson

335. “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

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

— Brandon Sanderson

337. “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

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

— Brandon Sanderson

339. “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

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

342. “Love, you’re deliciously weird sometimes.” “The rest of the time, I’m just tastelessly weird.” She held up the carafe. “Drink. It’s for science.”

— Brandon Sanderson

343. “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

344. “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

345. “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

346. “If you toss a kid into a lions den, can you really blame the lion?”

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

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

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349. “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.”

— Brandon Sanderson

350. “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.”

— Brandon Sanderson