George R. R. Martin Quotes

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

It's good to explore your darkness.

I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life.

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you

What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

I've been so in my moment about my life.

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

I definitely have a lot of different layers inside of me.

Boredom means you develop your own interior life.

I think about my journey sometimes.

I want people to find their inner depth.

There is a very pensive and intense side to me that even I did not know someone could capture.

I want to explore the range of emotions it is possible to feel.

I've really taken time to dive into my heart and my emotions a little more. I think, before, I was a little nervous to open up that box and go, 'What's in there,' you know? Now, that's what's made the best music, and that's what I've been able to pull out of parts of myself that I never knew existed.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

Everyone should go inward, get curious about themselves, and investigate their shadows. It's one of the most important gifts we can give humanity. It's one of our most vital causes.