“It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.”
Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist
Source: The Complete Persepolis
“The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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“Fatigue makes cowards of all of us.”
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
War as I knew it (1947), as cited in Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations, By Hugh Rawson, Margaret Miner, p. 258 https://books.google.com/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA258(via books.google.com).
“The Nonconformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.”
Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) English writer
"A Note on George the Fourth," http://books.google.com/books?id=NA0HAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+NonConformist+Conscience+makes+cowards+of+us+all%22&pg=PA250#v=onepage The Yellow Book (October 1894) <br class="br"> "King George the Fourth," http://books.google.com/books?id=OvlGAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+Nonconformist+Conscience+makes+cowards+of+us+all%22&pg=PA63#v=onepage The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896)
“The other's glory seems to make him prey
to shame, as though reproached for coward fear.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Par che la sua viltà rimproverarsi
Senta nell'altrui gloria, e se ne rode.
Canto VIII, stanza 11 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.”
Pierre Beaumarchais book The Barber of Seville
Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'être obligé d'en pleurer.
Act I, scene ii
Variant translations:
I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.
I force myself to laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.
Le Barbier de Séville (1773)
“Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.”
Rosemary Sutcliff book The Eagle of the Ninth
Source: The Eagle of the Ninth
Bram Stoker (1847–1912) Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula
Source: The New Annotated Dracula