Quotes About Fear

The man who does nothing also takes a risk.

Death should hold no fear for a man as old as me, but it does. Isn't that silly? It is always dark where I am, so why should I fear the darkness? Yet I cannot help but wonder what will follow, when the last warmth leaves my body.

It is not the foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your back.

Her father said there was no shame in being afraid, only in showing your fear. "All men live with fear," he said.

He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.

The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful.

A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up.

The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled around him, but he could feel how fast he was falling, and he knew what was waiting for him down there. Even in dreams, you could not fall forever. He would wake up in the instant before he hit the ground, he knew. You always woke in the instant before you hit the ground.

Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.

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

Boys believe nothing can harm them, his doubt whispered. Grown men know better.

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.

You cannot know what the light might summon from the darkness.

If there were ghosts in Harrenhal, they never troubled her. It was the living men she feared.

Drunks they may be, but a drunken man knows not fear. Fools, aye, but a fool can kill a king. Rats, that too, but a thousand rats can bring down a bear.

Dragons are fire made flesh.

Spare me," he begged. "I do not want to die." "Few do. Yet all men die, regardless.

It were the black one," the man said, in a Ghiscari growl, "the winged shadow. He come down from the sky and … and …" No. Dany shivered. No, no, oh no…. …"Those are no sheep bones.

It seemed as he had been falling for years. Fly, a voice whispered in the darkness, but Bran did not know how to fly, so all he could do was fall.

some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all.

The only way to keep your people loyal is to make certain they fear you more than they do the enemy.

The brave man slays with a sword, the craven with a wineskin.

Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you.

Dogs and wolves and lions, may the Others take them all.