George R. R. Martin Quotes

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.

Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.

The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder Dealt slow and even Unto the martyr Smiling at heaven: It is the smile Faint as a (waning) myth, Faint, and exceeding small On a boy's murdered mouth.

Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

I had everything I need to get me killed.

Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if i'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen.

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

fang will be the first to die

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

History is littered with dead good men

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

No hero is above fear.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.