Quotes About Bravery

The indispensability of play-acting in the grim business of dying and killing is particularly evident in the case of armies. Their uniforms, flags, emblems, parades, music, and elaborate etiquette and ritual are designed to separate the soldier from his flesh-and-blood self and mask the overwhelming reality of life and death.

best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

I've not ceased being fearful, I've gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you go too far.

If you don't risk anything, you risk more

You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the dead escape criticism.

That's what a writer is -- a conqueror of fears.

and the trouble is, if you risk nothing, you risk even more...

Y el problema es que si no arriesgas nada, arriesgas aún más.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

paunchiness, hairy and dark. He was also a human cannonball

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I don't believe in dying for causes. I don't believe in dying for poetry. Once I worshiped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

Ce le reproÅŸezi tu de fapt, Oscar? – Le e fric? de mine, Tanti Roz. N-au curajul s?-mi vorbeasc?. Åži cu cât le e lor mai fric?, cu atât am ÅŸi eu impresia c? sunt un mosntru. De ce par atât de terorizaÅ£i?

There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."

She [Akhmatova] was not afraid of calling evil by its name and had learnt that do this was of the utmost importance

I would walk into hell to keep you safe.

I am always happy when my body remembers to feel things other than scared.

she had no intention of exploring an abandoned graveyard alone at night. There was curious and there was stupid.

There are a lot of things in this world to be afraid of, but a dead body isn't one of them.

Being brave and being fearless are two different things.

It is not easy to be brave. This world discourages authenticity from infancy. It is not easy to do what you just did. It is not easy to just . . . speak. Or even to wait to speak, for that matter.