The grand finale of the final eighth season for the Game of Thrones TV series is on the nineteenth of this month, and the hearts of millions of fans are racing with excitement and curiosity.
This vast international community is literally biting their nails as they are counting the minutes until the answer to the big question is going to be revealed. And the big question is: Who – if anyone – will wind up on the Iron Throne when the series concludes this Sunday.
Game of Thrones is the iconic and popular fantasy TV drama created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
The series premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011. It is based off George Raymond Richard Martin’s award-winning novel A Song of Ice and Fire, first published in 1996.
Time magazine tagged Martin as one of the “most influential people in the world” in 2011, following the instant success of its TV adaptation. In fact, we can now safely speak of the existence of a global Game of Thrones cult.
All main characters have strong presence on screen. Perhaps too strong at times, considering the level of nudity and violence in some scenes. Yet, these cinematic techniques serve the purpose of recreating the authentic atmosphere of the era.
The series’ multiple plot lines and memorable characters have hooked in millions of viewers from around the world.
Set in a magical world shared between people and dragons, Game of Thrones explores in great depth the various aspects of human character and, more specifically, how far we can go in our strive for power.
We cannot know who’s going to win the Iron Throne this Sunday. However, the option of all candidates annihilating one another thus leaving the throne vacant is also open.
We do know, however, that the quotes listed below will give you inspiration and a broader vision of life!
1. Death is so final, whereas life …
Ah, life is full of possibilities.
— Tyrion Lannister
2. The freedom to make my own mistakes was all I ever wanted.
– Mance Rayder
3. The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
-Tywin Lannister
4. A ruler who kills those devoted to her is not a ruler who inspires devotion.
— Tyrion Lannister
5. There’s a beast in every man, and it stirs when you put a sword in his hand.
— Jorah Mormont
6. Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.
— Tyrion Lannister
7. It’s easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when what is has worked out in your favor.
— Tyrion Lannister
8. Leave one wolf alive and the sheep are never safe.
— Arya Stark
9. Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick. A shadow on the wall.
And a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
— Lord Varys
10. The things we love destroy us every time, lad.
Remember that.
– Jeor Mormont
11. A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. That’s why I read so much.
— Tyrion Lannister
12. A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
― Jojen Reed
13. It is a big and beautiful world.
Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.
– Oberyn Martell
14. The powerful have always preyed on the powerless.
That’s how they became powerful in the first place.
— Tyrion Lannister
15. When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not providing him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
– Tyrion Lannister
