The best Quotes from The Stormlight Archive

Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.

Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer

Sad Quotes

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance

Prejudice

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

Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer

Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

As 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 - Words of Radiance

Thinking Intelligence

A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.

Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance

Women's Rights

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

Expectations

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

"The question," she replied, "is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path."

Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer

Yes, I began my journey alone, and I ended it alone.
But that does not mean that I walked alone.

Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer

"I will take responsibility for what I have done," Dalinar whispered. "If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man."

Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer

This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

As long as you keep trying, there's a chance. When you give up? That's when the dream dies.

Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer

To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

In my painful experience, the truth may be simple, but it is rarely easy.

Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer

The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?

Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance

Words are where most change begins.

Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance

Words

"I don't talk to myself because I'm crazy."
"No?"
"I do it because I'm awesome."

Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance

One can believe in a story without believing it happened.

Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer

Stories

In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

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

Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer

Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.

Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance

"Ah, the outdoors," Shallan said. "I visited that mythical place once."

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

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 - Oathbringer

All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance

Stories

"The only time you seem honest is when you're insulting someone!"
"The only honest things I can say to you are insults."

Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance

Dump-Quotes Funny Insults

Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate.

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

Candles

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

Strength

An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.

Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer

Tradition

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

Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance

I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can't do anything about it.

Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance

Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

The book spoke of a king carrying the burdens of his people. It said that those who led were the lowest of men, for they were required to serve everyone.

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

Kings

What honor can we find on a battlefield while our people starve?

Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings

War

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Tress considered herself to be categorically boring. She liked her tea lukewarm, she went to bed on time, she loved her parents, occasionally squabbled with her little brother, and didn't litter. She was fair at needlepoint, and had a talent for baking. But had no other noteworthy skills. She didn't train at fencing in secret, she couldn't talk to animals, she had no hidden royalty or deities in her lineage. Though her great-grandmother Glorf had once reportedly waved at the king.

Brandon Sanderson in Tress of the Emerald Sea

"I kind of lost track of time..."
"For two hours?"
Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved."

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension

Books

How many other planets have you visited? Perhaps they all sail in oceans of pollen and your home is the freakish one.

Brandon Sanderson in Tress of the Emerald Sea

"Good men don't become legends," he said quietly.
"Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway."

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension

Good & Evil

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension

Failures & Mistakes

"I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."
She raised an eyebrow.
"Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point."

Brandon Sanderson in Warbreaker

Discussions

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

Brandon Sanderson in Warbreaker

Foolishness

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time... the losses are what define a man's faith.

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension

Losing & Defeat

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 in Mistborn - The Hero of Ages

Self-Confidence

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Final Empire

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

Ka Hancock

Stories Writing

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley

Love Hurting Sad Quotes

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

Albert Einstein

Prejudice Atoms

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