Quotes About Survival

The wolves will come again," said Jojen solemnly.

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

I'm not him, I'm not the turncloak, he died at Winterfell. My name is Reek, It rhymes with freak

It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either.

Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit.

Under the sea, the fish eat us. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.

He's turned against me too, Theon realized. Of late it seemed to him as if the very stones of Winterfell had turned against him. If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

If you step in a nest of snakes, does it matter who bites you first?

There's naught to eat in the dark but flesh.

Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.

A real wolf would finish a wounded animal.

when the cold winds blow the lone wolf dies and the pack survives. He had it all backwards. Arya, the lone wolf, still lived, but the wolves of the pack had been taken and slain and skinned.

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die, Cersei Lannister had told him in the godswood.

didn't have a gun myself. I never do. Guns are a crutch for those who aren't in good enough shape to run. I did have my Swiss Army knife, but that was just in case I needed a compact burglary tool.

On the twenty-sixth day of the fifteen-day march, the last of the vegetables was consumed. On the thirty-second day, the last of the grain and fodder. Asha wondered how long a man could live on raw, half-frozen horse meat.

The biggest toms would seldom win, she noticed; oft as not, the prize went to some smaller, quicker animal, thin and mean and hungry.

Gaunt men with sunken eyes squatted amidst sand and stones, shitting out their lives in stinking streams of brown and red.

Under the sea the old fish eat the young fish.

If you can't protect yourself, die and get out of the way of those who can.

Everyone talks about snows forty foot deep, and how the ice wind comes howling out of the north, but the real enemy is the cold.

You Starks are hard to kill," Jon agreed.

a man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred-and-first.

When all the trees have been cut down and all the animals have been hunted to extinction, when all the waters are polluted and the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.

Underneath his steal and wool and boiled leather, Jaime Lannister was a tapestry of cuts and scabs and bruises.