“Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.”

“Even the bravest men fear death and maiming”

“The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.”

“Well, even if the boy lives, he'll be a cripple, grotesque. Give me a good, clean death any day.'...'Speaking for the grotesques, I'll have to disagree. Death is so final. Whereas life, ah life is so full of possibilities.”

“Ser Loras lusts for glory as real men lust for women, the least the gods can do is grant him a death worthy of a song.”

“Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.”

“All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we'll live. -Ygritte”