Collected

Quotes

Lines worth keeping — sources, context, and the occasional thought of my own.

“They were not demons, they were just men who had too much power and not enough sense.
— Brandon Sanderson The Way of Kings
I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back, the passage went. He stumbled beneath the weight, shirtless under the sun, wearing only a loincloth. He tottered down a busy thoroughfare. People made way for him...
— Brandon Sanderson The Way of Kings
Never fight other men except when forced to in war.
— Brandon Sanderson The Way of Kings
‘And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our call...
— Brandon Sanderson The Way of Kings
Turn a liability into an advantage whenever you can.
— Brandon Sanderson The Way of Kings
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero AZ Quotes
To never become so certain or high that he wasn’t willing to seek truth.
— Brandon Sanderson The Way of Kings
Your heart will whisper to you. Your conscience will guide you. Your truth will reveal itself.
— Terry Brooks The Last Druid
You stand as you always have.  A good man does what he must.
— Kore Spartacus, s04e10
What has been need not always be.
— The Witcher The Witcher, s02e02
Let us strive to be worthy of appreciation but indifferent to whether we get it.
— Ryan Holiday Daily Stoic Email
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.
— Joan Didion Slouching Towards Bethlehem
At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.”
— Brandon Sanderson The Way of Kings
We are all victims of our lives, and we cannot change what we do in the aftermath; we can only try to make up for it. Nor can we change the minds of all those who have come to see us as they wrongly believe us to be. Some can never forget...
— Terry Brooks The Last Druid
“Things are never as bad as they seem. You’ll see.”
— Brandon Sanderson The Way of Kings