338 Quotes About Cowardice

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are...

Some people are not brave but ignorant of the danger they are in.

...a name is almost always a sort of cowardice---an attempt to confine a thing to being only what it is, rather than what it may be.

Of course I can run, but what I’m running from is the reality that I can’t run.

Survival feels like cowardice.

It is not the presence of fear that bothers me. Rather, it is the cowardice within me that refuses to face the fear. That is what bothers me.

If there’s any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, it’s that I’m on my feet. Now all I’ve got to do is alter my direction.