What Game of Thrones has taught me?
Game of Thrones is a British fantasy television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is a magnanimous conflict between Nine noble families and their obsession to capture the only “Iron Throne” of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for thousands of years. And none of the TV series has captured the popular psyche as it does in recent times; watching this series is an organic experience that shatters and excites you to the core.
This gruesome storytelling gives you hard-hitting realizations and simply says what it is to be a human? Good and Bad. Opportunistic and helpful. Sacrifice and selfishness. Lust and love. Life and death. War and throne. The dichotomy of life has been dealt so beautifully.
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I’ve learned a lot. So sharing the imminent truths that this series effectively portray in the form of dialogues. Understand them. Imbibe them. You will never be the same person again.
Here we go -
- Madman sees what he sees
- Mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone
- Too easily words of war becomes acts of war
- When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die
- No man could have protected him from himself
- Winning the kingdom is different from ruling the kingdom
- You want to lead one day? Then learn how to follow
- Never forget who you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be used to hurt you
- No man gives you the crown, you have to pay the iron price.
- Power resides where men believe it resides.
- If war were arithmetic, the mathematicians would rule the world
- A man without friends is a man without power
- Cleaner ways don’t win wars.
- We can’t avenge anyone from the grave.
- Loyal service means telling hard truths.
- They are not going to respect you until you prove yourself.
- Don’t trust anybody, life is safer that way.
- It’s better to be cruel than weak
- No one in this world can survive without help
- The more people you love, the weaker you are
- Wise men do not make demands of the king
- Death is certain, time is not
- One game at a time, my friend
- You can’t fuck your way out of everything
- Make love as it is the last day on earth
- Treat your oaths recklessly and your people will do the same
- Eat, drink, fuck and live
- Protect the weak and uphold the good
- There’s a beast in every man and it stirs when you put a sword in his hand.
- Men fight for you when they believe you
- Influence grows like weed
- Prodigies appear in the oddest of places
- Strike this man if he is guilty and give strength to his sword if he is true
- By what right does the wolf judge the lion??
- People need distractions
- It doesn’t matter what we want, once we get it, we want something else.
- Plots are not public knowledge
- Let it breathe. You are clogging with too much of wood
- I’ve won every battle but we are losing this war
- Chaos isn’t a pit, chaos is ladder. Only the ladder is real, the climb is all there is.
- There is power in king’s blood
- Death is the only true God
- I’ve have slaughtered many lambs? And none have seen the blade.
- We do not choose our destiny. Great or small, we should do our duty
- I think mothers and fathers made up the Gods because they wanted their children to sleep through the night
- The closer you get, the worse your fear gets
- The house that puts family first will always defeat the house that puts the whims and wishes of its sons and daughters first
- A good man does everything in power to better his family’s position regardless of his own selfish desires
- I don’t want to, I have to
- Long sword is bad option in close quarters
- You have to know the land to rule it
- Make sure you fucked your full before that day
- A single day of freedom is worth more than lifetime of chains
- A man with no motive is a man no one suspects
- Always keep your foes confused. If they don’t know who you are and what you want, they can’t know what you plan to do next.
- Know your strengths and use them wisely and one man can be worth 10000
- The deed is done faded into nothing. Only speaking of it can make it real
- You don’t need to make formal alliances with people you trust
- We must trust ourselves alone
- Marriages change people
- What good is power if you can’t protect the ones you love
- The absence of desire leaves one free to pursue other things
- Men never crave what they already have
- A lot can happen between now and never
- Men kill with steel
- Don’t worry about your death. Worry about your life and take charge as long as it lasts
- Old age is a wonderful source of ironies if nothing else
- Love is the death of duty
- Nothing makes the past a sweeter place to visit than the prospect of imminent death
- When you are nothing at all, there is no reason to afraid
- Freedom is making your own choices
- The future is shit just like the past
- Conquerers always meet resistance
- Shield is heavy, if it isn’t heavy, it cannot stop the sword
- Politics is the art of compromise
- How many times I have to say No before you understand??
- The powerful always preyed on powerless, that’s how they become powerful
- The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I ever wanted
- They are following me because they believe in me
- If they don’t fear you, they don’t follow you
- Be the commander to seek to when the night is the darkest
- One cannot exist without the other
- There is no justice in the world. Not unless we make it
- Nothing’s more hateful than failing to protect the one you love
- The faith and the crown are the two pillars that hold up this world. One collapses, so does the other
- Every ambitious move is a gamble
- Who needs wealth when you can make a woman laugh ??
- Wars teach people to obey the sword, not the Gods
- Boredom is the result of lack of inner resources
- Corpses raise questions. Questions raise armies
- Kill the boy and let the man be born
- Apology doesn’t mean anything if you are not looking at the person in the eye.
- All men fear death.
- It’s courage to admit fear. And to admit a mistake
- One’s choice of companion is a curious thing
- All rulers are either butchers or meat
- You cannot blame yourself for fate
- Belief is so often the death of reason
- A smart commander doesn’t abandon a defensive advantage
- It’s always changing, who we are supposed to love and who we are not. The only thing that stays the same is that we want who we want
- If a man knows what he is and remains true to himself the choice is no choice at all. He must fulfil his destiny and become who is meant to be. However much he may hate it.
- It’s easy to confuse what is with what ought to be especially when what it has worked out in your favour
- Only death can pay for life
- His sins do not pardon of your own
- We can’t fight an enemy we don’t know
- There is so much good in all of us. The best thing we can do is to help each other bring out
- I don’t trust the people. I trust their self-interest. They are trustworthy if they are convinced that working with me is in their self interest.
- We make peace with enemies, not friends
- Men don’t fight for the lost cause. Even the bravest
- Don’t die for pride when you can fight for your blood
- No ruler that ever lived had the support of all the people
- No one can protect me, no one can protect anyone
- No it’s not enough, I know but that’s only we have
- Think and walk
- We are going to leave the world better than we found it
- I’ll do what I can as long as I can
- Leave one wolf alive and the sheep are never safe
- Everything before the word but is horse shit
- No one wants to fight on the losing side
- The triumph of transitory pleasures mankind’s greatest curse
- Incompetence should not be rewarded with blind loyalty
- Peace never lasts, my dear
- A wise men once said that you should never believe a thing simply because you want to believe it
- Perhaps we should all be examining what we think we know
- Don’t fight in the North or the South. Fight every battle, everywhere, always, in your mind. Everyone is your enemy, everyone is your friend, every possible series of events is happening all at once. Love that way and nothing will surprise you. Everything that happens will be something that you have seen before.
- Don’t go where your enemy leads to
- Nothing fucks you harder than time
- The lion doesn’t conform to the opinions of sheep
- You need to take your enemy’s side if you are going to see things the way they do. And you need to see things the way they do if you are going to anticipate their actions, respond effectively and beat them.
- You have to see it to know
- When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives
- You want a whore, buy her. You want a queen, earn her
- Men do stupid things for women
- The greater the risk, the greater the reward
- Men decide where power decides, whether or not they know it
- Love is more powerful than reason
- What unites people?? Armies? Gold? Flags? Stories. There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it. And who has a better story than Bran the Broken??
- Leaders are not born. They are chosen
- 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. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
- The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow
- I admire those who fight the good fight
- A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.
- A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.
- Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.
- Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?
- History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
- The battle of good and evil is a great subject for any book and certainly for a fantasy book, but I think ultimately the battle between good and evil is weighed within the individual human heart and not necessarily between an army of people dressed in white and an army of people dressed in black. When I look at the world, I see that most real living breathing human beings are grey.
- The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid
- Men have scars, women mysteries
- A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
- Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
- Sharp steel and strong arms rule this world, don’t ever believe any different.”
Bingo.
