Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

I once saved someone from drowning.

I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things.

The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.

I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

I like to say I'm not a hero.

The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.

I am not a hero.

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone.

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.