“Death is a fearful thing.”

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

“Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.”

“You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.”

“If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up . . . No, that's stupid. I feared hundreds of things: the dark, the death of my father, the possibility that I might rejoice the death of my mother, sums involving vernier calipers, groups of schoolboys with nothing much to do, death by drowning. But of all these, I feared the most the possibility that I might go mad too.”

“That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.”