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Quotes About Fear

The snail may leave a trail of slime behind him, but a little slime will do a man no harm, while if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.
~ George R.R. Martin
She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear, and it felt as though Syrio Forel walked beside her, and Yoren, and Jaqen H'ghar, and Jon Snow.
~ George R.R. Martin
Do the dead frighten you?
~ George R.R. Martin
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it,' the dwarf had told him smiling. The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice as Samwell Tarly had.
~ George R.R. Martin
A frightened man is a beaten man.
~ George R.R. Martin
Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid." "What do you think?" his father asked. Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?" "That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him.
~ George R.R. Martin
It takes courage to admit fear.
~ George R.R. Martin
No, no, my good knight, do not fear for me. The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons, don't you see? Don't you SEE?
~ George R.R. Martin
The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.
~ George R.R. Martin
His dagger was out, poised at her throat. "Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.
~ George R.R. Martin
The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings.
~ George R.R. Martin
All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. The Stark colors. Theon did not know whether he ought to find that ominous or reassuring. Even the sky was grey. The eyes of the bride were brown. Big and brown and full of fear.
~ George R.R. Martin
Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.
~ George R.R. Martin
None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.
~ George R.R. Martin
Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.
~ George R.R. Martin
Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost.
~ George R.R. Martin
My mother raised me to be bold. If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had." "If you do go, the rest of your life may be too short for wondering. - Asha & Rodrick
~ George R.R. Martin
I could keep you safe," he rasped. "They're all afraid of me. No one would hurt you again, or I'd kill them -Sandor Clegane
~ George R.R. Martin
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.
~ George R.R. Martin
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
~ George R.R. Martin
It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?
~ George R.R. Martin
I am not blind, nor deaf. I know you all believe me weak, frightened, feeble. Your father knew me better. Oberyn was ever the viper. Deadly, dangerous, unpredictable. No man dared tread on him. I was the grass. Pleasant, complaisant, sweet-smelling, swaying with every breeze. Who fears to walk upon the grass? But it is the grass that hides the viper from his enemies and shelters him until he strikes.
~ George R.R. Martin
No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.
~ George R.R. Martin
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.
~ George R.R. Martin