Top 500 George R.R. Martin Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.”

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

108. “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

109. “Chaos is a ladder.”

— George R.R. Martin

110. “You know nothing, Jon Snow.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

112. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

114. “Laughter is poison to fear.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— 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. “Some doors are best left closed.”

— George R.R. Martin

120. “As we sin, so do we suffer.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— 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 would choose freedom over comfort every time.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

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

— George R.R. Martin

127. “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

128. “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

129. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

132. “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

133. “A mad man sees what he sees.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

135. “Trust is earned. Like gold.”

— George R.R. Martin

136. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

139. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

145. “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

146. “Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you’ll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.”

— George R.R. Martin

147. “What are gods for if not to sit in judgment over men? The Many-Faced God does not weigh men’s souls, however. He gives his gift to the best of men as he gives it to the worst. Elsewise the good would live forever.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

149. “Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.”

— George R.R. Martin

150. “A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.”

— George R.R. Martin