George R. R. Martin Quotes

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

What's dead may never die.

In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

I don't know... there's something kind of beautiful about it, don't you think? That we keep living and growing even though our world is a corpse? That we keep coming back no matter how many of us die?

It's in our blood to start again.

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

When we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little while. The spring returns and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

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.

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

If you have to, take a break, go to your corner, get some sleep, but don't ever give up. You will get there.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Jean Grey, the Phoenix... she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.

Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.

The victory of endurance born.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.