338 Quotes About Cowardice

When you don't have the courage, you never had the courage.

And Athos had. He’d broken Holland one bone, one day, one order at a time. Until all Holland wanted, more than the ability to save his world, more than the strength to bring the magic back, more than anything, was for it to end.It was cowardice, he knew, but cowardice came so much easier than hope.

we do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years. We want to have our thinking confirmed and corroborated by another, whereas to ask a question is to ask it of yourself.

Pity does not validate cowardice

It is bad to love life if one loves it like a coward.

Wow, I think my crush just disappeared. Cowardice was a surprisingly big turn-off.

¿A cuántos sofismas acudes diariamente para ocultarte que eres un cobarde? Yo soy un cobarde.

...one of the new conscripts, a useless, terrified little creature.... These boys are no use out here. Why send them? Why not recognise that cowardice is a fact and most cowards wish they weren't, and it's not their fault and it's not under their control, and keep them the hell out of our way while we get on with it?

Страх наказания и нравственное чувство — разные вещи. Страх — это область физиологии. А трусость — область нравственности.