George R. R. Martin Quotes

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

Stability is not the way of the world.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

History is a fickle lady.

The only stable thing seems to be perpetual change, where our certainties are crumbling one after the other …

Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent or vital has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

Everything changes with time. You can't predict where you're gonna be next year; you have no idea, you know what I mean?

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

The world's a scene of changes.

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

Cling to your insecurity, in this world, it's the only thing you can be sure of.

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.