Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

Every day I wake up like, "This might be my last day, and I'm not scared of it. I'm gonna go out there, do what I gotta do; I ain't gonna let nothing stop me." Nothing puts any fear in my heart. I'm never scared to bite my tongue about something, or never be scared to come out and speak about something - that's what I mean. Like, I ain't scared of death. What you gonna do to me?

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

It is better to die once than to be always in fear of death.

Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but the three of us didn't say anything. He continued: "Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even though I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

I was thinking Im going to die but I'm not going to tap

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared

Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.