A real man—real in all the ways that we recognize as real—finds himself suddenly abstracted from the world and deposited in a physical situation which could not possibly exist: sounds have aroma, smells have color...

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

Explanations are for cowards.

Tom’s cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to.””No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission.””We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.

Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions; they never walk alone!

She has her helmet, shield and sword. Does she finish him or take pity on the gutless thing before her?Does she set fire and smoke him out, forcing him to fight, or does she let...

When you don’t fight your adversary, you become the coward in the sight of animalistic breeds, but they forget that your real strength stays in the whisper of your voice.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

The last time that I consciously wrote anything to ‘save the honor of the Left’, as I rather pompously put it, was my little book on the crookedness and cowardice and corruption (to put it...

Life is too short to cower.

,Cómo podría ser cobarde quien enfrenta sus miedos con tal de alcanzar sus añoranzas?

{From Luther Burbank’s funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death threats. He tried to amiably answer them all, leading to his death}It is impossible to...

I was a coward. I went to the war.