We fear only what we haven’t understood.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.
The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!
Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
Life is first boredom, then fear.
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
It's not the pain I'm afraid of; I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.
Obviously, the Night's King is clearly a symbol of something very unpleasant in our psyche, and he even raises wights from the dead, which is probably everybody's worst fear, being actually used after we're dead.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
