Quotes About Time

The air smelled of paper and dust and years.

old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.

One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.

No man should live longer than his teeth.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come. Certain moths live their whole lives in a day, yet to them that little span of time must seem as long as years and decades do to us. An oak may live three hundred years, a redwood tree three thousand. A weirwood will live forever if left undisturbed. To them seasons pass in the flutter of a moth's wing, and past, present, and future are one.

No," said Bran. "I haven't. And if I have it doesn't matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

Still, night falls for all of us in the end, and too soon for some.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

As she watched him, this tall young man with the new beard and the direwolf prowling at his heels, all she could see was the babe they had laid at her breast at Riverrun, so long ago.

Lawless men are everywhere in this dark time, oh, yes. Men with cold steel and colder hearts. - Varys

The dungeons are windowless. One hour is much like another down there, and for me, all hours are midnight.

The nights are too long,' he told Missandei, 'and there is much and more to do, always.

Will you not weep?" "I do not have the time for tears.

Here and now, with winter soon upon us, that is a different matter. It is time to begin growing up.

The waves may break upon the mountain, yet still they come, wave upon wave, and in the end only pebbles remain where once the mountain stood. And soon even the pebbles are swept away, to be ground beneath the sea for all eternity.

Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again, he said.

Does this mud look like shit to you? Could it be that this whole hill is made of Craster"s shit?" Jon smiled. "Well, I hear he's been here a long time," ...

Sometimes," Catelyn said slowly, "the best thing you can do is nothing.

Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we bever mindedn if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she use to saym you have to visit them from time to time.

George R.R. Martin

Though Roose had been in battles, he bore no scars. Though well past forty, he was as yet unwrinkled, with scarce a line to tell of the passage of time.

Stop whimpering and snapping at me, I'm sick of it. Keep your mouth shut and do as I tell you, and maybe we'll even be in time for your uncle's bloody wedding.

I know a song about him. But I thought he lived a hundred years ago. We all did. Once I was as young as you.

Keep your mouth shut and do as I tell you, and maybe we'll even be in time for your uncle's bloody wedding.