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Pierce Brown Quotes

born 1988 United States

Pierce Brown (born January 28, 1988) is an American science fiction author and screenwriter known best for his Red Rising series.

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Only humanity could grasp the stars and then let them slip through its fingers for the pettiness in its heart.

Dark Age (2019)

Government is never the solution, but it is almost always the problem.

Morning Star (2016)

If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose.

Morning Star (2016)

"Lies are rust on iron. A blemish on power."

Golden Son (2015)

Permanence of fame, power, dominion of the individual, are illusions. All that will be measured, all that will last, is your mastery of yourself.

Dark Age (2019)

The tragedy of the gifted is the belief they are entitled to greatness, Lysander. As a human, you are entitled only to death.

Dark Age (2019)

What devious designs freedom requires. One must worry about the strength of a principle when it must compromise itself so often to survive.

Dark Age (2019)

I once thought the greatest sin of war was violence. It isn't. The greatest sin is it requires good men to become practical.

Dark Age (2019)

"You are a worm who thought himself a serpent just because you slither. But your power was not real, Pliny. It was all a dream. Time now to wake."

Golden Son (2015)

I think, as with all things, honor is best appreciated in moderation. As is cruelty.

Dark Age (2019)

Is a man a coward if he realizes that bravery is just a myth the old tell the young so they line up for the meatgrinder?

Dark Age (2019)

Life is meant to be felt. Else why live? Valleys make the mountains.

Dark Age (2019)

Don't you find it peculiar? The human conviction that we are the heirs of history instead of paragraphs that are almost over. A survival mechanism, no doubt.

Dark Age (2019)

A moving mind is always fed. At rest, mine eats itself.

Dark Age (2019)

How can I feel so melancholy for so terrible a past? Maybe it's just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be.

Morning Star (2016)

Nothing beautiful survives the mob.

Dark Age (2019)

"What is pride without honor? What is honor without truth? Honor is not what you say. It is not what you read." Romulus thumps his chest. "Honor is what you do."

Morning Star (2016)

Tradition is the crown of the tyrant.

Golden Son (2015)

Humans are always negotiating. That's what conversation is. Someone has something, knows something. Someone wants something.

Red Rising (2014)

In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them. And woe to those who have no use in war except to feed the machines.

Morning Star (2016)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pierce Brown (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.