# Pierce Brown - Quotes: 40 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown ## Books - [Dark Age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/dark-age.md) — 18 quotes - [Golden Son](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/golden-son.md) — 6 quotes - [Iron Gold](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/iron-gold.md) — 1 quote - [Morning Star](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/morning-star.md) — 10 quotes - [Red Rising](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/red-rising.md) — 5 quotes ## Recently added quotes > To see them from above: the roving herds of beasts, the rivers carving stone, the rituals of man in all their varied panoply, to see the clouds roil over the patchwork latifundia of Asian plains, to see the mines of our home, is to remember the patterns of the world, and the majesty and complication and impermeable obscurity of distant lands. It is to remember how few people you know. How many do not know you. How many will soon forget you. How many praise you today to offer contempt tomorrow. Permanence of fame, power, dominion of the individual, are illusions. All that will be measured, all that will last, is your mastery of yourself. > > That is what my father told me. It was his warning about power, though he sought it to his end. I've never understood how a man so wise could be so undone by himself. Perhaps I never will, and that is what has always frightened me. Not that I cannot control my own fate - that is impossible - but that I cannot control myself. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/dark-age/to-see-them.md) > The tragedy of the gifted is the belief they are entitled to greatness, Lysander. As a human, you are entitled only to death. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/dark-age/the-tragedy-of-the.md) > "You know the curse of this world?" I ask, looking at the body the Carver made for me. "The greatest gifts were given to the worst of us." > > "Not realizing they are gifts is what makes them the worst," he replies. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/dark-age/you-know-the.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/dark-age/dont-you-find.md) > What devious designs freedom requires. One must worry about the strength of a principle when it must compromise itself so often to survive. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/dark-age/what-devious-designs.md) > I think, as with all things, honor is best appreciated in moderation. As is cruelty. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/dark-age/i-think-as-with.md) > The legends of our age die one by one, like autumn leaves; and when they are gone, will we be lesser for their absence? > > It seems cheap. > > With his death imminent, the worlds feel emptier. Almost as cavernous as they did when Cassius fell. One by one, the titans of my youth disappear, and freed from their shadow, I do not feel liberated. I feel bereft. > > Nothing is permanent. No one escapes. > > "The bill comes at the end," I whisper. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/dark-age/the-legends-of-our.md) > I kept looking for hope in the world. Expecting the world to supply deliverance if I p[lucked the right chords. Demanding that it supply validation to my labor if I just gave enough effort. But that is not the nature of the world. Its nature is to consume. In time, it will consume us all, and the spheres will spin until they too are consumed when our sun dies. > > Maybe that is the point of it. Knowing that ine day darkness will cover all, at least your eyes were open to moments of light. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/dark-age/i-kept-looking.md) > He has little appetite for banter. He knows the dangers of the path I have chosen to walk, and he doubts me because the old do not remember the necessities of youth. They see only the years on our horizon to which they think we are entitled. But we are entitled only to the moment, and owe nothing to the future except that we follow our convictions. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/dark-age/he-has-little.md) > You know I believe we all begin equal parts light and dark. I fear you think your strength lies in your darkness. But the measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/dark-age/you-know-i-believe.md) > "Lies are rust on iron. A blemish on power." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/golden-son/lies-are-rust.md) > When I looked up at my father as a boy, I thought being a man was having control. Being the master and commander of your own destiny. How could any boy know that freedom is lost the moment you become a man. Things start to count. To press in. Constricting slowly, inevitably, creating a cage of inconveniences and duties and deadlines and failed plans and lost friends. I'm tired of people doubting. Of people choosing to believe they know what is possible because of what has happened before. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/morning-star/when-i-looked.md)