Brandon Sanderson Quotes

I was trained to be very tough. My mom told me I shouldn't cry; I shouldn't be afraid of anything.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

I don't cry about anything.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.

You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

Crying is not an option.

... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by all those misfortunes. I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don't-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress.

He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger.

We don't have time to be sad

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

I know if I react, and I want to get mad, and emotions come to the surface, I think quickly of my friends who have died and how they overcame their struggle and used their cancer and their lives for the betterment of mankind, and it sets me back in place.

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.

For years I used to think that you had to hide your emotions to show that you are strong.

Never let your face show how hard they are taking your ass.

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.

I've never had one of those middle of the nights when I go, 'Why me?' or 'I don't know if I can keep fighting like this.' No. Those thoughts don't even enter my mind.