4 Quotes From Game Of Thrones That Will Undoubtedly Change Your Life

Inspiring folk-wisdom from fictional characters

Aeril Trinidad
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6 min readSep 4, 2020

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I’m parallel with millions over the world that’s been a die-hard freak about Game of Thrones. It’s the first novel in a series of A Song of Ice and Fire, written by George R. R. Martin.

It’s been 24 years since first the book was published. I’m not even brought forth on that occasion, but it’s a fortune for me to rumble this chart-busting fiction book.

First and foremost, it’s profoundly intellectual. It’s built-in kings and queens, swords and knights, dragons and spirits. Each kingdom possesses a House banner — a ferocious lion raging on the red flag, a howling dire wolf on white fabric, and a crimson three-headed dragon on a black pennant — All of these are ruled by the finest crowned king and a myriad of ruler battling for kingdoms that are soul-stirring to visualize.

It’s a medieval drama that possesses the heart of living souls, and it’s been premiered on HBO for about nine years if I’m not mistaken. It sets on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos.

The shows are lavish with juncture after juncture that abruptly culminates in cliffhangers. The dialogue is frequently amusing, brusque, and sometimes it could be heart-breaking.

There was a time that it suddenly shocked me about the plot twisted of the story, saying — Holy sh*t out load. I am certainly caught off-guard that it made me fathom the potency of the book.

A unified Millenium of readers on a coast-to-coast scale mellowed, in tandem with Jon Snow, Arya Stark, Daenerys Targaryen, Cersei Lannister, and Tyrion Lannister. They are amongst the most ubiquitous fictional character of the decade.

From my standpoint, I conjecture that the story flowed from the real wars parallel with The War of the Roses in England, the War of Scottish Independence, and countless empires that fight for their land and freedom.

Nonetheless, It completely reflects on heart-rending presumptions in the vein of fate, loyalty, treachery, and death. Which makes it a puzzling read or a range of scenarios that transform into unexpected disquisitions.

Either you are a fanatic of the novel or the shows, or a shade of each of two — I am about to draught out a portion of my cherry-picked quotes from the Game of Thrones that can apprise us about life and how we can perceive the world in a distinct perspective.

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  1. “A very small man can cast a very large shadow.” — Lord Varys

In TV shows, it pertains to Tyrion Lannister that was a dwarf and his been doubted a capability to lead or catalyze his particular vassal.

But, Tyrion never visualizes this personage in the eyes of people instead, he ratifies himself his better than that.

Although in books, Varys first models it to Tyrion when he initially breezes in King’s Landing (A Clash of Kings). He contemplated alerting Tyrion to grasp how to play along and not turn out to be manipulated.

He desired for Tyrion to distinguish straight away, who the puppets and shrewd are, and the people who he can entrust his life.

There will be a time that we lose sight of trust in ourselves, but we should certainly not lose track of what we’re capable, to flourish. Our deepest fear is ourselves, afraid of revealing our true selves. There always be a silver lining if we are eager to carve it.

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2. “The things I do for love” — Jaime Lannister

This is the time when Jaime shoves Bran from a tower, while the kid perceives him screwing his sister. The show proves it is brimming with dark humor. This reveals that the fictional character, “Jaime Lannister”, is conceivable utterly wicked.

Brandon Stark turned out to be crippled as a consequence of appointing Jaime’s volitions. Jaime Lannister doesn’t want to spoil his image and his family in front of publicity.

In the long run, it is a choice that made him an arch-enemy, and he will wield that contrition for the rest of his life.

Even though it’s all fiction, it has the potential to transpire in an actual event. This indicates that in every part of the choice you make, there will undoubtedly show a tendency to unveil a double-edged outcome. So, you better choose wisely.

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3. “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.” — Sansa Stark

This is accurately a beautiful quote by Sansa that provides deeper meaning. She spoke about it with her sister that’s vanished for a long time.

Winter is coming. — Eddard Stark

As I said earlier — a howling dire wolf — it means it is perspicuous to survive when you are with the pack, calling and protecting each other when they are vulnerable or threatened.

Identical to a family that has been our stronghold when in darkest times. Their father expounds them the significance of family — so should we — We must support and defend our family for us to survive a winter. A wolf by its own volition has more fortuitous of dying, instead of a pack that hangs around, for one another.

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4. “Nothing f*cks you harder than time.” — Davos Seaworth

Sir Davos doesn’t have as many phenomenon pictures as some personalities, but this one is a masterpiece.

He was talking to Gendry, a skilled blacksmith and an unglorified bastard son of King Robert Baratheon.

This one strikes me hard, and I’ve not hesitated to list this one too. Amongst the greatest battle of our lives is time, spending our very existence in school — let’s call a spade to spade, this society we’re in university to achieve a medal or degree — to have a better future.

But how about learning what truly means to live? Are you just wasting your time? Are you having regrets, hoping you would have done such a great moment on that plenty of time?

Perhaps, now is the time to act something, running through with our lives as if it is our last.

Bottom Line

I’m hoping these quotes resonate with you and suddenly have an impact on your life. I advise that you should also read or watch Game of Thrones. It is thoroughly outlandish, and a novel that will live for centuries.

They will certainly speak something inside the range of yourself. It is an albatross that bulges you to be fearless in the teeth of obstacles, to be eager to validate our capability, to be clever with our volitions we made, and reiterates what we most value in our standard of living.

For readers and admirers out there, both teenage and elderly, these quotes are statements to be implemented within our lives.

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Aeril Trinidad
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Inspiring people is my top priority | Student and Writer | Passionate about writing poetry, life-lessons and personal growth | Email: aeriltrinidad@gmail.com