George R.R. Martin Quotes

50 quotes

American writer and television producer (born 1948)

“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”

"No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow."

on Wisdom

"So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have."

on Time

"We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy."

on Love

"The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful."

on Truth

"Oh yes, it hurts at times to be alone among the stars. But it hurts a lot more to be alone at a party. A lot more."

on Life

"...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.""...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is."

on Wisdom

"Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love."

on Love

"Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote."

on Philosophy

"You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move."

on Honor

"It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again."

on Writing

"Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come."

on Death

"Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him."

on Courage

"Fear cuts deeper than swords."

on Fear

"There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it."

on Fear

"The man who fears losing has already lost."

on Fear

"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."

on Wisdom

"Only the innocent know the peace of untroubled sleep. Confess sins, and you will sleep like a newborn babe."

on Wisdom

"Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? That's the only tine a man can be brave."

on Courage

"Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see."

on Fear

"Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities."

on Death