George R. R. Martin Quotes

Only the good die young.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.

For if good fortune makes your friends for you, Ill fortune makes them enemies for sure.

I have a cousin who, at age 36, passed away from cancer, and she left three girls.

I can die peacefully now as both my babies have their own babies.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.

The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.

[I'll be the first one of the Smith to die.] I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.

All I did was die,' I said. 'And then, when presented with an opportunity not to be dead any more, I took it. Anyone else would have done the same thing.

Wait. You think I'm going to die? That's why you slept with me?

You're never too young to die.

Three of Donald Trump's kids have come forward to defend him, and called him 'an incredible dad and role model.' Donald was so moved that he wrote one of them back into his will. 'I'm not gonna tell you which one . . . it's Donald Jr.'

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.