1,392 Quotes by Brandon Sanderson

I looked at Hurl's lacerated face, her one remaining eye staring ahead. Defiant until the end, for all the good it had done. Brave . . . cowardly . . . she was still dead, so what did it matter?

Fame is like a cheeseburger. It might not be the best or most healthy thing to have, but it will still fill you up. You don't really care how healthy something is when you've been without it for so long. Like a cheeseburger, fame fills a need, and it tastes so good going down.It isn't until years later that you realize what it has done to your heart.

You could even scan to the end and read the last page. Know that by doing so, however, you would violate every holy and honorable storytelling principle known to man, thereby throwing the universe into chaos and causing grief to untold millions.

It's hard sometimes," Noril said, stirring. "Coming awake means leaving the nothingness, you know? Remembering the pain. But then I think, 'Well, he gets up'.

Back in my State, I'm very close to being able to control the weather. I'll be all-powerful, once I've figured that out.

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.

Something is either right or it’s wrong,” Dalinar said, feeling stubborn. “The Almighty doesn't come into it.”“God,” Navani said flatly, “doesn't come into whether his commands are right or wrong.”“Er. Yes.

Me considero un hombre de principios. Pero ¿qué hombre no se considera tal? Incluso el asesino, según he advertido, interpreta sus acciones como «morales». Tal vez otra persona, al leer mi vida, me considere un tirano religioso. Puede llamarme arrogante. ¿Qué hace que la opinión de ese hombre sea menos válida que la mía propia? Supongo que todo se reduce a una sola cosa: al final, soy yo quien tiene los ejércitos de su parte.

Dadas dos obras de majestuosidad artística, sopesadas por igual, daremos más valor a quien la hizo primero. No importa lo que crees. Importa que crees antes que nadie.