Robert Kirkman Quotes

Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

I definitely know that I play the part, however big or small, in the deaths of at least two people, Chris Farley and Phil Hartmann.

Our initial assessment is that they will all die.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.

If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.

One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself.

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.

It's a good thing about George R.R. Martin: He's prepared to kill off the main guys. You don't get the feeling that the good guy is going to last forever, like James Bond.

With 'Lost,' some members of the cast would literally open the script and find out that they were dead. I mean, that's quite sad, really.

If you're going to die on 'Game of Thrones,' you have to die well, haven't you?

I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I want somebody to die." Fortunately for me, when I was toying with that idea, John Landgraf, who's the head of FX but also a very smart executive, came up with the idea of the ashes in the maracas. He called me up and said, "Listen, what about this, they get the ashes in a box and when they get them, they shake them and they sound like maracas." And I was like, "Okay, now I've got my throughline."

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?"

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.

The only certainty is death.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.

Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.

To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.