"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."

Reflection, Dream, Time, Opportunity, Regret

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"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."

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"When we feel lost in time, with only shadows of the past living in our mind; when the moment, which "was", no longer "is and when only silence remains, loads of questions arise. We can cry a river or we may wonder: "What went wrong?"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Reflection, Time, Memory, Loss

"The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and remorse may unsettle us during the effort to give our future a new home. ['Into a new life']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Reflection, Past, Fear, Regret, Guilt

"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reflection, Death, Life, Surprise, Inspirational

"If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reflection, Shakespeare, Civilization, Progress, Philosophy

"We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reflection, Mortality, Life, Silence, Existence

"She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Reflection, Mind, Idea, Imagination, Introspection

"There is always a zone where somebody is nobody, there is always a zone where somebody is somebody and there is always a zone where nobody is nobody."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Reflection, Zone, Existence, Identity, Life

"An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think, write, even play the piano. She muddled Armenians and Turks; loved success; hated discomfort; must be liked; talked oceans of nonsense: and to this day, ask her what the Equator was, and she did not know.All the same, that one day should follow another; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; that one should wake up in the morning; see the sky; walk in the park; meet Hugh Whitbread; then suddenly in came Peter; then these roses; it was enough. After that, how unbelievable death was!-that it must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all; how, every instant . . ."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reflection, Life, Gratitude, Mortality, Existence

"She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reflection, Writing, Observation, Surprise, World

"Thoughts, quotes, and philosophies-good or bad-cause us to evaluate ourselves. And that is good."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Reflection, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

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"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him."

Courage

"All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns."

Satire

"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."

Duty

"One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it."

War

"Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul."

Psychology

"Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be."

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"When we feel lost in time, with only shadows of the past living in our mind; when the moment, which "was", no longer "is and when only silence remains, loads of questions arise. We can cry a river or we may wonder: "What went wrong?"

"The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and remorse may unsettle us during the effort to give our future a new home. ['Into a new life']"

"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual."

"If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?"

"We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence."

"She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects."

"There is always a zone where somebody is nobody, there is always a zone where somebody is somebody and there is always a zone where nobody is nobody."

"She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued."

"Thoughts, quotes, and philosophies-good or bad-cause us to evaluate ourselves. And that is good."

Explore more quotes by George R. R. Martin

"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him."

"All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns."

"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."

"One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it."

"Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul."

"A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands."

"Wolves and women wed for life."

"It's you and me that matters to me and you."

"He who hurries through life hurries to his grave."

"Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be."