True bravery is not the absence of fear, but going into battle in spite of it.
To fight, men need a lord who can lead them into battle without fear.
This wasn’t the Last Battle. I fear it was the first.[to Lan]
They will love you because I love you, and the only thing stronger than love is how f***ing scared they are of getting cut out of the will.[to Juno, about his children]
There is no shame in being afraid. Courage is being scared and acting anyway.[to Karla]
There is no fear like the fear of losing a child. It is primal. And it’s wrenching.
The sole objective of life is to multiply. Sand. Pepples. Water. They don’t seek to multiply. Yet life will never stop struggling to do so. Extinction runs counter to the goal of multiplying, so to make us run from death, life cursed us with fear.
The only way to master the unknown is to make it known.
The only thing I ever saw stop a thug mid-fight… was a bigger thug.
The only people who aren’t afraid of failure are madmen.
The conquest of fear lies in the moment of its acceptance. And understanding what scares us most is that which is most familiar, most common place.
That’s our world now, Will. We lie to everyone. We lie to our friends and our colleagues and our family. We lie out of fear. We lie to protect ourselves.
