George R. R. Martin Quotes

You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

Death By A Thousand Cuts

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow to the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me.

No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.

Kill the body and the head will die.

Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.

Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.

The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it.

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

That man said he’d take your head too.” “Well, as to that,” Yoren said, “if he can get it off my shoulders, he’s welcome to it.

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

I'm not a star, man. If a guy came in here and shot you and shot me, we'd both be two dead people. You understand?

You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two fingers in her mouth. Im so sorry. And pulled the trigger

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery.

Death is a large form of entertainment, probably the largest. Watching death in different ways is entertaining for us, whether it's a high-speed chase and a guy grabs a helicopter and flies away. We know the reality of it is that he wouldn't be physically able to hold onto that helicopter and fall to his death. But it's entertaining to watch.

Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.

In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead

It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think?

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.