George R. R. Martin Quotes

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

Powerlessness frustrates; absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely. Absolute frustration is a dangerous emotion to run a world with.

I love the storm and fear the calm.

Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.

I'm never funnier than when I'm heartbroken or terrified.

I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

Afraid is a country with no exit visas.

Fear is the enemy of hope.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.

I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

A man without hope is a man without fear.

The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

......And she's courageous but scared to death But that's what courage means

If I think, everything is lost.

Hope and fear are inseparable.

I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !

Just understand that the end began long ago We got here just in time Look All the squares in the sidewalks were already there All these strangers have more money than you do All the good riffs have been taken And everyone is so scared Murder is commonplace I don't even flinch at the gunshots outside my window I feel lonely without them