Quotes About Adversity

I tell you this—Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings.

Let me give you some counsel, bastard. Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strenght. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. —Tyrion Lannister

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost.

What are you doing to me?" he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. "I can't fly!" You're flying right now. "I'm falling!" Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said.

Everything Syrio Forel had ever taught her vanished in a heartbeat. In that instant of sudden terror, the only lesson Arya could remember was the one Jon Snow had given her, the very first. She stuck him with the pointy end, driving the blade upward with a wild, hysterical strength.

Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.

Un hombre puede ser valiente cuando tiene miedo? - oyó que preguntaba su voz, tenue y lejana. – El el único momento en que puede ser valiente, Bran - le respondió la voz de su padre.

I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys) 'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices.

None of us is ever ready

You will never walk again, Bran," the pale lips promised, "but you will fly.

No one mocked him in his bedchamber, but he would not live his life in bed.

Mai, mai dimenticare chi sei, perché di certo il mondo non lo dimenticherà. Trasforma chi sei nella tua forza così non potrà mai essere la tua debolezza. Fanne un'armatura e non potrà mai essere usata contro di te.

Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?" "That is the only time a man can be brave,

What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.

He had chosen a hard life... or perhaps he should say that a hard life had been chosen for him

Why did you make your people lambs, when the world is full of wolves.

A twisted spine condemned him to walk with a limp, but as he said famously, "I do not limp when I read, nor when I write.

George R.R. Martin

A long time ago, she remembered her father saying that when the cold winds blow the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. He had it all backwards. Arya the lone wolf, still lives, but the wolves of the pack had been taken and slain and skinned.

It is no easy thing to slay a dragon, but it can be done.

Can a man be brave when he is afraid?- Bran asked after a moment's thought. -"It's the only time he can be brave,"- his father said.

She had a warrior's heart, but the gods in their blind malice had given her the feeble body of a woman.