Quotes About Courage

Speak for yourself, always. It is lack of confidence. You can say things as well as Dostoevsky, Elie Faure or anybody you quote. Dare to speak for yourself. Let the other people lie in your blood, but faceless, nameless, diluted, masticated by you, reproduced etc.

I don't really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.

Psychoanalysis did save me because it allowed the birth of the real me, a most dangerous and painful one for a woman, filled with dangers; for no one has ever loved an adventurous woman as they have loved adventurous men.

El dolor es para superarlo, no para revolcarse en él.

There is a fantastic courage in this, to live without laws, without fetters, without thought of consequences.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

One word I would banish from the dictionary is 'escape.' Just banish that and you'll be fine. Because that word has been misused regarding anybody who wanted to move away from a certain spot and wanted to grow. He was an escapist. […] You have a right to experiment with your life.

La vida se encoge o se expande en proporción al coraje que uno tenga.

La amo por lo que se ha atrevido a ser, por su dureza, su crueldad, su egoísmo, su perversidad, su demoníaca fuerza destructora. Me aplastaría sin la menor vacilación. Se trata de una personalidad llevada al límite. Adoro el valor con que hiere y estoy dispuesta a sacrificarme a él. Sumará mi ser al suyo. Será June más todo lo que yo contengo.

La vie se rétracte ou se dilate à proportion de notre courage

Herir y ser consciente de que se hiere, saber que es una necesidad, lo encuentro intolerable. No tengo la valentía de June. Lucho por evitarle a Hugo toda humillación.

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage.

I have no fear of your femaleness.

Gostava dos infernos do amor, do amor misturado com os grandes sofrimentos e os grandes obstáculos. Queria matar monstros, lutar e vencer inimigos como um novo dom Quixote.

I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women, to enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy.

I kill one realistic dragon a day, and unfortunately the meat is too tough to eat or we could save money on steak.

Anaïs, beware of enlargement, exaggeration and dramatization. Beware of associating the bad weather, a tactless work, a rebuttal letter, a rejection, with a total picture for despair. You have courage, but this courage is severely strained by your enlargement of the obstacles and the way you hurl yourself against them as if your life depended on it.

Don't hesitate to betray your ignorance. It's no crime.

He says: "You seem to have finished just suffering life and are beginning to dominate it." Just suffering life is not enough. I know.

I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.

Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.

So bewies mir das Wagnis, dass es nicht zerstörerisch ist, wenn wir unser Innerstes aufs Spiel setzen, wenn wir unseren verborgenen und echten Kern anbieten. Wie können nicht zerstört werden.

Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.