Top 500 George R.R. Martin Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “If I look back I am lost.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

108. “Chaos is a ladder.”

— George R.R. Martin

109. “You know nothing, Jon Snow.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

111. “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

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. “Laughter is poison to fear.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

117. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

120. “Some doors are best left closed.”

— George R.R. Martin

121. “As we sin, so do we suffer.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

128. “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

129. “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

130. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

133. “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

134. “A mad man sees what he sees.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

136. “Trust is earned. Like gold.”

— George R.R. Martin

137. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

140. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

148. “Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.”

— George R.R. Martin

149. “Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it’s the execution that is all-important.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin