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Quotes About Tragedy

We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.
~ George R.R. Martin
That made her laugh until she screamed. "Mad," someone said, "she's lost her wits," and someone else said, "Make an end," and a hand grabbed her scalp just as she'd done with Jinglebell, and she thought, No, don't, don't cut my hair, Ned loves my hair. Then the steel was at her throat, and its bite was red and cold.
~ George R.R. Martin
The battle proved a victory—at least in part—and soon after, his grandfather finally died, and Ser Elmo became Lord of Riverrun. But he did not long enjoy his station; he died on the march forty-nine days later, leaving his young son, Ser Kermit, to succeed him.
~ George R.R. Martin
He brought them the gold they asked for, but they hung him anyway." "Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.
~ George R.R. Martin
Solo somos humanos, y los dioses nos hicieron para el amor. Es nuestra mayor gloria y nuestra peor tragedia.
~ George R.R. Martin
Robert got a pair of twins on a serving wench at Casterly Rock, three years ago when he went west for Lord Tywin's tourney. Cersei had the babes killed, and sold the mother to a passing slaver.
~ George R.R. Martin
Weese was sprawled across the cobbles, his throat a red ruin, eyes gaping sightlessly up at a bank of grey cloud.
~ George R.R. Martin
Then Lord Eddard is a man in ten thousand. Most of us are not so strong. What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms... Or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
~ George R.R. Martin
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~ George R.R. Martin
Her brother Rhaegar battling the Usurper in the bloody waters of the Trident and dying for the woman he loved.
~ George R.R. Martin
Catelyn had not eaten today. Perhaps that had been unwise. She told herself that there had been no time, but the truth was that food had lost its savor in a world without Ned. 'When they took his head off, they killed me too.
~ George R.R. Martin
Oh." Ygritte cupped his cheek with her hand. "You know nothing, Jon Snow," she sighed, dying.
~ George R.R. Martin
His axe took her in the back of the head.
~ George R.R. Martin
He was born in grief, my queen, and that shadow hung over him all his days.
~ George R.R. Martin
God plays savage japes upon us all, but men are crueler still.
~ George R.R. Martin
Siamo solamente esseri umani, Jon Snow, e gli dei ci hanno foggiato perché si possa amare. É la nostra gloria più grande, e anche la nostra tragedia più terribile.
~ George R.R. Martin
Rubini schizzano via come gocce di sangue dal petto di un principe morente che si accascia nell'acqua, mormorando il nome di una donna.
~ George R.R. Martin
We'll go back to the cave," he said. "You're not going to die, Ygritte. You're not." "Oh." Ygritte cupped his cheek with her hand. "You know nothing, Jon Snow," she sighed, dying.
~ George R.R. Martin
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.
~ George Saunders
We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
~ George Steiner
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
~ George Steiner
We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
~ George Steiner
Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
~ George W. Bush
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.
~ George W. Bush