Quotes
A death was more than an ending; it was like pulling a thread from a richly patterned cloth.
p. 17
Most of us spend our lives avoiding the thought of death. Instead, the inevitability of death should be continually on our minds. Understanding the shortness of life fills us with a sense of purpose and urgency to realize our goals. Training ourselves to confront and accept this reality makes it easier to manage the inevitable setbacks, separations, and crises in life. It gives us a sense of proportion, of what really matters in this brief existence of ours. Most people continually look for ways to separate themselves from others and feel superior. Instead, we must see the mortality in everyone, how it equalizes and connects us all. By becoming deeply aware of our mortality, we intensify our experience of every aspect of life.
When men are dying every hour, no one looks too hard at one more dead man.
Kings and corpses always draw attendants.
Death should hold no fear for a man as old as me, but it does. Isn't that silly? It is always dark where I am, so why should I fear the darkness?
On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.
On the morning after the battle, the crows had feasted on victors and vanquished alike, as once they had feasted on Rhaegar Targaryen after the Trident. How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?
Is it treason to say a man is mortal?
All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we'll live.
We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.
Men die in war, even men who are young and strong.
There are worse things than dying with a song on your lips.
