Oathbringer Quotes

“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”

‘To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”

“Accept the pain, but don’t accept that you deserved it.”

″‘The question,’ she replied, ‘is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.‘”

“Yes, I began my journey alone, and I ended it alone. But that does not mean that I walked alone.”

“The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but in ensuring one’s life would produce many future moments to anticipate.”

“But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination.”

″ In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I’ve practiced”

“The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but in ensuring one’s life would produce many future moments to anticipate.”

“A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us. But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fail, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination.”

“The most important word a man can say are, ‘I will do better.‘”

“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can’t just assume that because something is old it is right.”

″‘I will take responsibility for what I have done,’ Dalinar whispered. ‘If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.‘”

″‘You’re not a monster, Shallan,’ Wit whispered. ‘Oh, child. The world is monstrous at times, and there are those who would have you believe that you are terrible by association.’ ‘I am.’ ‘No. For you see, it flows the other direction. You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.‘”

″‘Your name is Lift, right?’ ‘Right.’ ‘And your order?’ ‘More food.‘”

“Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.”

“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”

“I’m certain some will feel threatened by this record. Some few may feel liberated. Most will simply feel that it should not exist. I needed to write it anyway.”

“You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived.

“The ancient code of the Knights Radiant says “journey before destination.” Some may call it a simple platitude, but it is far more. A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us.”