Top 500 George R.R. Martin Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.”

— George R.R. Martin

102. “But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.”

— George R.R. Martin

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103. “Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.”

— George R.R. Martin

104. “The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home.”

— George R.R. Martin

105. “Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.”

— George R.R. Martin

106. “The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.”

— George R.R. Martin

107. “Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.”

— George R.R. Martin

108. “My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”

— George R.R. Martin

109. “I just need to rest, that’s all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.”

— George R.R. Martin

110. “There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.”

— George R.R. Martin

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111. “I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.”

— George R.R. Martin

112. “Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.”

— George R.R. Martin

113. “Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.”

— George R.R. Martin

114. “The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.”

— George R.R. Martin

115. “Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.”

— George R.R. Martin

116. “Laughter is poison to fear.”

— George R.R. Martin

117. “A man who won’t listen can’t hear.”

— George R.R. Martin

118. “Power resides where men believe it resides.”

— George R.R. Martin

119. “And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.”

— George R.R. Martin

120. “It doesn’t matter what we want, once we get it, then we want something else.” – Lord Baelish.”

— George R.R. Martin

121. “I would choose freedom over comfort every time.”

— George R.R. Martin

122. “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.”

— George R.R. Martin

123. “Some doors are best left closed.”

— George R.R. Martin

124. “Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost.”

— George R.R. Martin

125. “As we sin, so do we suffer.”

— George R.R. Martin

126. “In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.”

— George R.R. Martin

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127. “I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.”

— George R.R. Martin

128. “Trust is earned. Like gold.”

— George R.R. Martin

129. “And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.”

— George R.R. Martin

130. “If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.”

— George R.R. Martin

131. “Let me tell you something about wolves, child. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.”

— George R.R. Martin

132. “A frightened man is a beaten man.”

— George R.R. Martin

133. “Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.”

— George R.R. Martin

134. “Syrio says that every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better.”

— George R.R. Martin

135. “The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother’s milk. Darkness will make you strong.”

— George R.R. Martin

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136. “Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”

— George R.R. Martin

137. “Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”

— George R.R. Martin

138. “The women are the strong ones, truly.”

— George R.R. Martin

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139. “Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what’s on the other side?”

— George R.R. Martin

140. “I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?”

— George R.R. Martin

141. “A mad man sees what he sees.”

— George R.R. Martin

142. “In the end words are just wind.”

— George R.R. Martin

143. “When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you.”

— George R.R. Martin

144. “They hate you because you act like you’re better than they are.”

— George R.R. Martin

145. “What the King dreams, the Hand builds.”

— George R.R. Martin

146. “You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...”

— George R.R. Martin

147. “Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?”

— George R.R. Martin

148. “Kings have no friends, just subjects and enemies.”

— George R.R. Martin

149. “Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. – Areo Hotah.”

— George R.R. Martin

150. “When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.”

— George R.R. Martin