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Quotes About Time

He will not be three forever. And winter is coming.
~ George R.R. Martin
As the next thousand years unfold—and the thousands beyond that—many more will be born, and live, and die. And history will continue to unfold, as strange and complex and compelling as what my humble pen was able to lay before you
~ George R.R. Martin
I often spend half the night with ghosts, remembering times fifty years past as if they were yesterday. The mystery of a midnight visitor is a welcome diversion.
~ George R.R. Martin
That is how it is when a man grows as old as Pycelle. Everything you see or hear reminds you of something you saw or heard when you were young.
~ George R.R. Martin
So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.
~ George R.R. Martin
That's what they always ended up saying: "But I'm just sad." Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I'm not a licensed therapist but usually it means too much time.
~ George R.R. Martin
Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
~ George R.R. Martin
Stories wait, my little lord, and when you come back to them, why, there they are
~ George R.R. Martin
Forgive an old man his wanderings, if you would. Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.
~ George R.R. Martin
Oh, sí, hay muchas cosas que no comprendemos. Pasan los años, cientos, miles, ¿y qué ve un hombre en su vida? Unos pocos veranos, unos pocos inviernos. Miramos las montañas y decimos que son eternas, así nos lo parecen... pero, en el curso del tiempo, las montañas se alzan y caen, cambia el curso de los ríos, mueren estrellas en el cielo y grandes ciudades se hunden debajo del mar. Incluso los dioses mueren. Todo cambia.
~ George R.R. Martin
It might have been minutes or it might have been hours; time slept when swords woke.
~ George R.R. Martin
Money buys a man's silence for a time. A bolt in the heart buys it forever.
~ George R.R. Martin
She had been making for Riverrun for years, it seemed, without ever getting there.
~ George R.R. Martin
Hard things only grow harder if y ou put them off.
~ George R.R. Martin
Algunas heridas no llegan a cerrarse jamás, y sangran de nuevo a la menor mención.
~ George R.R. Martin
What good is this, i ask you? He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
~ George R.R. Martin
For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction.
~ George R.R. Martin
We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem … but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.
~ George R.R. Martin
How time seemed to blur and slow and even stop, how the past and the future vanished until there was nothing but the instant, how fear fled, and thought fled, and even your body.
~ George R.R. Martin
The time to speak of the cold is not when we are standing put in it.
~ George R.R. Martin
The old wounds never heal.
~ George R.R. Martin
CATELYN Ned and the girls were eight days gone when Maester Luwin came to her one night in Bran's sickroom, carrying a reading lamp and the books of account. "It is past time that we reviewed the
~ George R.R. Martin
place or that place. The rest of the time, they ate in his solar,
~ George R.R. Martin
Taking his arm, Pylos led him inside. In his youth, Cressen had walked briskly, but he was not far from his eightieth name day now, and his legs were frail and unsteady. Two years
~ George R.R. Martin