Quotes About Tragedy

Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna, and thousands died for it.

I knew a brother drowned himself in wine once. It was a poor vintage, though, and his corpse did not improve it." "You drank the wine?" "It's an awful thing to find a brother dead. You'd have need of a drink as well, Lord Snow.

A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves ...

He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)

My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark." "I hear he was taller." "Not after Joff took off his head.

Tell me again what you saved.'' ''Your life'' Daenerys, said. Mirri Maz Duur laughed cruelly. ''Look to your khal and see what life is worth when all the rest is gone.

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

And Robb. Robb who had been more a brother to Theon than any son born of Balon Greyjoy's loins. Murdered at the Red Wedding, butchered by the Freys. I should have been with him. Where was I? I shold have died with him.

There are no happy endings.

It was like murdering two of your children. I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in a bedchamber, poor fool.

Pick," he said, "or we kill them all." On her knees, weeping, Helaena named her youngest, Maelor. Perhaps she thought the boy was too young to understand, or perhaps it was because the older boy, Jaehaerys, was King Aegon's firstborn son and heir, next in line to the Iron Throne. "You hear that, little boy?" Cheese whispered to Maelor. "Your momma wants you dead." Then he gave Blood a grin, and the hulking swordsman slew Prince Jaehaerys,

There he lost his love and half his crew, if the tales be true…

We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship.

You know the best thing about heroes, Jaime? They all die young and leave more women for the rest of us.

Jaime: "Bir el kaybettim, bir baba, bir o?ul, bir k?z karde?, bir sevgili ve çok yak?nda bir erkek karde? kaybedece?im. Ve bana hâlâ Lannister Hanedan?'n?n bu sava?? kazand???n? söylüyorlar.

All around, the sea was full of ships. Some were burning, some were sinking, some had been smashed to splinters.

A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust.

Three good men dead, to save a hedge knight's foot.

Noooo," Cersei wailed, "Father help him, someone help him, my son, my son...' Tyrian found himself thinking of Robb Stark. My own wedding is looking much better in hindsight.

His passion was a tragedy for all of us, but it was real, and pure, and nothing to be made mock of.