Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

If you really hate me, you should at least have the courtesy to take out a piece of paper and write it down and mail it to me. If you're a worthy nemesis, I want to see your handwriting. I want to see your name and your address, and if you don't have the guts to give me those, then you're not a worthy nemesis.

Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.

The fears you don't face imprison you.

I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.

Fear is a place where you just tell the truth

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.

Do not run away, it is cowardice.

If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.

Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.

It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.

Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and-we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat-he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him;.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity.