Life Quotes by George R.R. Martin

“Would you throw your life away for pride?”

— George R.R. Martin

“In life, the monsters win.”

— George R.R. Martin

“No one was safe. No life was certain.”

— George R.R. Martin

“A reader lives a thousand lives.”

— George R.R. Martin

“My life is a poor thing, but it is yours.”

— George R.R. Martin

“My life was writ in red, in blood and wine.”

— George R.R. Martin

“The living should smile, for the dead cannot”

— George R.R. Martin

“If life was worthless, what was death?”

— George R.R. Martin

“Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery.”

— George R.R. Martin

“the Dothraki believed that all things of importance in a man’s life must be done beneath the open sky.”

— George R.R. Martin

“I pray he found the peace in death that he never knew in life.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Bronn grinned one last time, and walked out of the door, the castle, and his life.”

— George R.R. Martin

“There will be more, and worse. These creatures have no sweeter joy in life than jeering at their betters.”

— George R.R. Martin

“If there were ghosts in Harrenhal, they never troubled her. It was the living men she feared.”

— George R.R. Martin

“No one mocked him in his bedchamber, but he would not live his life in bed.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Life is not a song sweetling. You may learn that one day to your sorrow.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Ask yourself why Aemon Targaryan was allowed to waste his life upon the Wall when by rights he should have been raised…

— George R.R. Martin

“There is a power in living wood,” said Jojen Reed, almost as if he knew what Bran was thinking, “a power strong…

— George R.R. Martin

“You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my…

— George R.R. Martin

“This was where they came when the warmth had seeped out of their bodies; this was the dark hall of the dead,…

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“Speaking for the grotesques,” he said, “I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.” Jaime”

— George R.R. Martin

“Duty. Honor. He yearns to write his name large across the book of history, to get away from his wife, or both.…

— George R.R. Martin

“If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words.…

— George R.R. Martin

“She was drunk on the magic of the night, giddy with glamour, swept away by beauties she had dreamt of all her…

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“Alyssa Arryn had seen her husband, her brothers, and all her children slain, and yet in life she had never shed a…

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“The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a…

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“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die,” she whispered. Ned had played and lost, and his men…

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“I have been half my life away from home,” Theon said at last. “Will I find the islands changed?” “Men fish the…

— George R.R. Martin

“Well, even if the boy lives, he'll be a cripple, grotesque. Give me a good, clean death any day.'...'Speaking for the grotesques,…

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“There were four of them, Catelyn saw. An old man in the black of the Night’s Watch, two servants … and Tyrion Lannister, standing…

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“- i have done things i am not proud of, things that brought shame onto my house and my father's name.. but…

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“Do you mean to spend your whole life running away?" Tyrion asked before she could slip back out the door. That stopped…

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“How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime reached for the flagon…

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“Bones, Catelyn thought. This is not Ned, this is not the man I loved, the father of my children. His hands were…

— George R.R. Martin

“Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all…

— George R.R. Martin

“The day is won [...] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Sitting on a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.”

— George R.R. Martin

“I am not made to be a mother. I need to fight.” “Then fight … but for the living, not the dead.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Life would be much simpler if men could fuck themselves, don't you agree?”

— George R.R. Martin

“Let them mock, Bran thought. No one mocked him in his bedchamber, but he would not live his life in bed.”

— George R.R. Martin