George R. R. Martin Quotes

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died once," Tengo repeated. "On a night when there was a cold rain falling," she said. "Why did you die?" "So I would be reborn like this." "You would be reborn," Tengo said. "More or less," she whispered quietly. "In all sorts of forms.

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

I have died too many deaths that were not mine.

Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

Death is the beginning of something.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Who ever said that one was born just once?