George R. R. Martin Quotes

I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!

All good things arrive unto them that wait – and don’t die in the meantime

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

I have a rendezvous with life.

The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

When it's your time, it is your time.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest curiosity as to what may be.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

No nation can anticipate its term, nor delay it.

Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.

Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.

The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.

If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie.

Everything happens at the time it needs to happen. I do not push destiny. Boxers take different paths in their career and those roads don't always come together.

SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate.