George R. R. Martin Quotes

Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead.

At least the girls in stories were alive before they died.

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave.

The movie's not over till everybody's dead.

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

No one here gets out alive.

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

A grave is such a quiet place.

Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling so much to life and why we are afraid of death is just inconceivable. We cling to life so much because we do not know how to live. We cling to life so much because really we are not alive. And time is passing and death is coming nearer and nearer. And we are afraid that death is coming near and we have not lived yet.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

I wouldn't call myself a coward, no way. But being buried alive is something I could never handle. The only way you'd see me being buried alive is if I was dead, man.

Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

It makes no difference to me whether I shoot you or you fall to your death.” “It does make a difference,” I said, my voice small but confident. “You and I share the same blood.” I lifted my hand precariously, showing him my birthmark. “I’m your descendant. If I sacrifice my blood, Patch will become human and you’ll die. It’s written in The Book of Enoch.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

I pressed her thigh and death smiled

Peace is in the grave.