Citations:valar morghulis

Phrase: "(fandom slang) an expression used as an acknowledgement of human mortality and the inevitability of death"

 * 2012, "Acknowledgements", Sudarshan Dyanidhi, "Behavioural, Muscular And Dynamical Changes In Low Force Dexterous Manipulation During Development and Aging", dissertation submitted to the University of Southern California, page vii:
 * I have to thank Brendan Holt for being a fellow public transport user and for introducing me to “A Song of Ice and Fire”, which helped maintain my sanity during a tough last year (“Valar Morghulis”), Alex Reyes for being a fellow microbrew aficionado and chess wizard, Josh Inouye for his amazing acronyms (“Grazie Mille!”), Na-Hyeon Ko for being a fellow pediatric therapist and social butterfly (“Gambae!”),
 * 2014, "Acknowledgements", in Kathleen A. Moore, "Scrutiny on the Bounty: From Crisis Communication To Crisis Conversation", dissertation submitted to Pennsylvania State University, page xi:
 * If Valar Morghulis, then I shall do my very best in paying it forward in the time I have left. Valar Dohaeris.
 * 2015, "James Hibberd, "Two Hundred And Forty Hours In Westeros", Entertainment Weekly, 20 March 2015, page 40:
 * Actors are begging the producers to know their fates. Valar morghulis, after all.
 * 2015, "News Briefs", The Crow's News (University of South Florida St. Petersburg), 30 March 2015 - 5 April 2015, Volume 49, Issue 26, page 2:
 * Hop on your dire wolf or dragon and ride over to the Tampa campus to get an early Game of Thrones fix. Valar Morghulis.
 * 2015, "Rumble in Westeros", Metro (Philadelphia, PA), 10 April 2015, page 1:
 * As the fifth season of “Game of Thrones” begins this weekend, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau says the series has never been better (even as a Lannister), while Sophie Turner can’t wait for you to see Sansa Stark's darker side. So choose your alliances wisely and remember: Valar morghulis.
 * 2015, Tim Horgen & Mike Rice, "Game On", Everett Daily Herald (Everett, WA), 12 April 2015, page D1:
 * Arya has been on the run since seeing her father executed in Season 1, most recently learning lessons of life and death from the Hound. What is in store for our little bird now that she's on her own and headed for Braavos? Valar morghulis.
 * 2015, Hannah Jane Cohen, "A Road Trip To Djúpavík", The Reykjavík Grapevine, 5 June 2015 - 18 June 2015, page 31:
 * On a philosophical note, there has never been a moment in my life where I’ve truly considered the gravity of death. Yes I know, “All men must die,” but I’m a writer, not a BASE jumper. I spend most of my time behind a bright computer screen, thinking. Yet as I started driving along the edge of a snowy cliff tumbling hundreds of meters downwards to the rocky sea, without snow tyres, the possibility was getting a little bit too real. Valar morghulis.
 * 2015, "Hell Yes", Boise Weekly, 24 June 2015 - 30 June 2015, page 24:
 * If you're reeling from the battle-heavy valar morghulis-ness of Game of Thrones, a raucous night of music by The Useless, P36, Nude Oil, The Jerkwadz and Trigger Itch might help release some pent-up emotions.
 * 2015, Joshua David Stein, "The Life Cycle Of A Brand", Esquire, September 2015, page 149:
 * “High-status consumers introduce a new taste, people of lower status emulate them,” Quartz writes in Cool. “Higher-status people then abandon the taste because it’s become popular among the lower status, and the next cycle of imitation-abandonment begins.” All trends must die, valar morghulis.


 * 2015, Keegan Guidolin & Matthew Douglas-Vail, "What kills us and what costs us: An examination of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge", University of Western Ontario Medical Journal, Volume 84, Issue 1, Winter 2015, page 18:
 * In 2015, different beasts threaten our lives—heart disease, cancers, and chronic airway diseases comprise the majority of our disease burden. Valar morghulis—all men must die.
 * 2015, "The Head The Wears The Crown", SciFiNow, page 138:
 * "You know that you're definitely coming into the season, whether it's to leave at some point you don't know," explains [Nathalie] Emmanuel. "I suppose it's nerve-wracking, but I think, I feel like that's something that happens a lot on Game Of Thrones, and to be killed or to leave or whatever isn't that unlikely and I've kind of accepted that could happen to my character and I'd just be happy to have been a part of it all so, and I just hope that it would be done in a nice way or a cool way or something that makes people feel something."
 * "Valar Morghulis," chuckles [Liam] Cunningham. Valar Morghulis, indeed.
 * 2015, "Acknowledgements", in Austin M. Howard, "Akirin-Mediated Gene Regulation During Cardiac Development", thesis submitted to Kennesaw State University, page 45:
 * And now, my watch has ended. Valar morghulis.
 * 2016, Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer, page 216:
 * ‘Sic transit Gloria mundi,’ I said, because it was the first thing that came into my head - we clinked and drank. It could have been worse. I could have said Valar Morghulis instead.
 * 2016, Courtney Weber, Tarot for One: The Art of Reading for Yourself, page 41:
 * One of the greater truths to the Death card is that it is natural. As it’s said in the fantasy fiction series A Song of Ice and Fire and in the subsequent television show Game of Thrones, Valar morghulis, which means “All men must die." So must all endeavors, ambitions, and even relationships to the passage of time or physical death.
 * 2016, "Fire & Ice", Ville, May/April 2016, page 45:
 * At this point we can pull out our hair and curse the gods for HBO’s takeover, or we can just sit back and enjoy. Whatever happens, just remember, valar morghulis.
 * 2017, Greg Garrett, Living with the Living Dead: The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse, pagse 26-27:
 * In that vision of the corpse I will become, the ashes to which I will be reduced, however, there is also peace. When I consume a zombie story, I am confronted with the visceral awareness that I will someday be a corpse (presumably not an animated one and, presumably, not because of an animated one!), and I can come to some sort of peace, whether consciously or not, with that universal truth that one day I will be rotting in a rave, or become ashes.
 * Valar morghulis, as we hear in Game of Thrones. All men must die.
 * 2017, Emma Brint, "The Acoustic Change Complex for Measuring Speech Perceptual Performance in Normal Hearing Listeners in Noise, Cochlear Implant Users, and Second Language Listeners", dissertation submitted to University College London, page 4:
 * For Shiela, Valar Morghulis.
 * 2017, Emory S. Daniel Jr. & David K. Westerman, "Valar Morghulis (All Parasocial Men Must Die): Having Nonfictional Responses to a Fictional Character", Communication Research Reports, Volume 34, Issue 2 (used in title only):
 * The purpose of this study is to determine how people reacted to the end of a parasocial relationship per a character death, by applying the Kubler-Ross Stages of Grief Model to Twitter reactions after the death of fictional character Jon Snow from the television show Game of Thrones.
 * 2017, Major Roxbrough, Axevictim, unnumbered page:
 * Smalley said once again and quietly, “Valar morghulis”.
 * Almost absently Vostok returned, “Valar dohaeris. The main thing is the rest of us are back together, are you coming to see Manspea, or continuing on as a separate unit”?
 * 2017, "Summer Is Coming, But Winter Is Here", Seren (Bangor University), May 2017, page 32:
 * And if you want to know my pick for the Iron Throne, I’m still somehow veering towards Littlefinger, it would be chaos but, as he once said, ‘Chaos is a ladder’... anyway, see you in September to kick off the year with a full series review! Valar Morghulis chaps and chapettes.
 * 2017, Erick Galgal, "Dragons, Ice People and a Platinum Blonde", The Bullsheet (James Cook University), Week 17, page 9:
 * For season 7, I am keen to see how they will pull off the battle scenes with the Dragons but as far as how the story progresses, I doubt neither the show nor books will get a happy ending, because George R.R Martin is a pessimist. My theory is that everyone dies, Valar Morghulis.
 * 2018, Caroline Pledger, Fat, Fifty, and Finished: Where Are You Now?, unnumbered page:
 * Aggression leads to War and the concept of fighting a war within our bodies is beyond logical. To whom are we fighting? Are we fighting to defend life, against the enemy? But who and what is the enemy? The ultimate enemy is death. Yet, all men must die ......  V alar Morghulis!
 * 2018, David Roche & Megan Roche, The Happy Runner: Love the Process, Get Faster, Run Longer, page xv:
 * As said by the Faceless Men, a group of assassins in Game of Thrones, "valar morghulis." All men must die. Runners just get more reminders.
 * 2019, Leigh Perry, The Skeleton Stuffs a Stocking, unnumbered page:
 * I said, "Valar morghulis, David!"
 * "Valar doeharis, Dr. Thackery."
 * 2019, Shuai Sun et al., "Chemiluminescence quenching microarrays for high throughput screening of antioxidants and its application in evaluating herbal extracts and pure compounds", Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 1046 (link):
 * Free-radical theory of aging is one of the most accepted hypothesis for the old saying 'Valar morghulis ' (High Valyrian, all men must die).
 * 2019, "Dedication", in Jennifer P. B. Price, "Testing Construct Redundancy: Resilience, Grit, Hardiness, and Mental Toughness", thesis submitted to Saint Mary's University (Halifax, NS), page 7:
 * You fought a good battle, and it was an honour to be there right beside you. I will miss you. “Valar Morghulis” my friend. The God of Death has called one of its valiant warrior [sic] home, albeit, too soon.
 * 2020, Hara T. Georgatzakou, Marianna H. Antonelou, Effie G. Papageorgiou, & Anastasios G. Kriebardis, "'Valar morghulis': all red cells must die", Blood Transfusion, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2020, page 84:
 * Ultimately, while all RBCs must die ("Valar Morghulis"; "all men must die", to borrow from the Game of Thrones" universe of George RR Martin) before time [sic] comes, they all must serve their physiological purpose ("Valar Dohaeris"; "all men must serve", in the acclaimed ''Song of Ice and Fire" series).