Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

We are not surprised to learn that panic and confusion are hourly gaining ground in Britain.

Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

Now is the age of anxiety.

In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

A nightmare is two bassists on stage.

There's a lot of speculation on what the zombie apocalypse thing means. I have a feeling that it's kind of an expression of our subconscious fears. I think we know that something big and impossible - some enormous crash, equalizing crash, whatever - may be coming around the corner.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

I just don't like getting scared, like when people hide and jump out of places. That totally freaks me out. I'm not a fan of it.

I had to test a new terror in myself.

Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.

There's so much to be afraid of.

There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.

I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when we're hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.