#coward

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. ↗

— Robert Burns

#character #complaint #cowardly #despised #enduring

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. ↗

— Julius Caesar

#before #cowards #deaths #die #many

Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#cowardice #dark #easy #front #get

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#courage #cowardly #desperation #dull #half

Amaranta, however, whose hardness of heart frightened her, whose concentrated bitterness made her bitter, suddenly became clear to her in the final analysis as the most tender woman who had ever existed, and she understood with pitying clarity that the unjust tortures to which she had submitted Pietro Crespi had not been dictated by a desire for vengeance, as everyone had thought, nor had the slow martyrdom with which she had frustrated the life of Colonel Gerineldo Márquez been determined by the gall of her bitterness, as everyone had thought, but that both actions had been a mortal struggle between a measureless love and an invincible cowardice, and that the irrational fear that Amaranta had always had of her own tormented heart had triumphed in the end. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#fear #love #life

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life. ↗

— Trevor McDonald

#am #constant #coward #fact #fear

Tradition has made women cowardly. ↗

— Nance O'Neil

#made #tradition #women

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ↗

— Jean Paul

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Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. ↗

— Ellis Peters

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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. ↗

— Sallust

#bravery #cowards #defense #most #rampart