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Quotes About Fear

Then the trees closed in around her, black as pitch and full of ghosts and memories.
~ George R.R. Martin
in the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight.
~ George R.R. Martin
We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. "The wildlings are dead." "Do the dead frighten you?" Ser Waymar Royce asked with just the hint of a smile.
~ George R.R. Martin
A félelem mélyebbre hatol, mint a penge.
~ George R.R. Martin
He could feel the eyes of the dead. They were all listening, he knew. And winter was coming.
~ George R.R. Martin
No, she wanted to shout to him, 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
Unless you relish the notion of having a one-armed dwarf for a son …
~ George R.R. Martin
It was not just for herself that she feared now, but for her baby. He must have sensed her fright, for he moved restlessly inside her.
~ George R.R. Martin
Everyone talks about snows forty foot deep, and how the ice wind comes howling out of the north, but the real enemy is the cold.
~ George R.R. Martin
Bad dreams never come true. The both of them had been so young, that had sounded almost wise.
~ George R.R. Martin
The pale sword came shivering through the air
~ George R.R. Martin
There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it.
~ George R.R. Martin
The things I do for love," it said. Bran screamed. The crow took to the air, cawing. Not that, it shrieked at him. Forget that, you do not need it now, put it aside, put it away. It landed on Bran's shoulder, and pecked at him, and the shining golden face was gone. Bran
~ George R.R. Martin
So go to sleep, my little Brandon, my baby boy. You needn't fear. There are no monsters here.
~ George R.R. Martin
Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?" he heard his own voice saying, small and far away. And his father's voice replied to him. "That is the only time a man can be brave.
~ George R.R. Martin
Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.
~ George R.R. Martin
There are no shadows in the dark.
~ George R.R. Martin
I understand that you loved him," Ser Jorah said in a voice thick with despair. "I loved my lady wife once, yet I did not die with her. You are my queen, my sword is yours, but do not ask me to stand aside as you climb on Drogo's pyre. I will not watch you burn." "Is that what you fear?" Dany kissed him lightly on his broad forehead.
~ George R.R. Martin
When the two men were ten yards apart, the Red Viper stopped and called out, "Have they told you who I am?" Ser Gregor grunted through his breaths. "Some dead man.
~ George R.R. Martin
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
When men are starving and sick of fear, they look for a savior.
~ George R.R. Martin
You lie," he said. "All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it ... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.
~ George R.R. Martin
None of us wants trouble, but I fear these are troubled times,
~ George R.R. Martin
Wylla." Lord Wyman smiled. "Did you see how brave she was? Even when I threatened to have her tongue out, she reminded me of the debt White Harbor owes to the Starks of Winterfell, a debt that can never be repaid. Wylla spoke from the heart, as did Lady Leona. Forgive her if you can, my lord. She is a foolish, frightened woman, and Wylis is her life. Not every man has it in him to be Prince Aemon the Dragonknight or Symeon Star-Eyes, and not every woman can be as brave as my Wylla.
~ George R.R. Martin