Brandon Sanderson Quotes

One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.

I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people.

Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy!

That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.

I think everybody's nuts.

Some of them … are tripping one another up, while others are twisting each other and groveling together in the mud, wallowing like swine … Others standing upright, … are attacking each other with blows and kicks … one looks as if he were going to spew out his teeth, unlucky man, his mouth full of blood and sand …. Nobody can easily convince me that men who do these things are not out of their minds.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

Madness breeds madness.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?

Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

The United States is a madhouse.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.