A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.

I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.

Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

We can’t be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

She stood without sound, for only silent can you listen. She stood without fear, for only the fearless can understand their peril.

A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don’t let fear turn possibility into certainty.

Call it a personal foible. Some people are scared of spiders. I'm scared of immolation. Also spiders.