Jonathan Maberry Quotes

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana.

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. Everyone must work out his own salvation.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

I don't feel fear anymore, in any form.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

What is stronger, fear or hope?

Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

Love is possible. Life is going to decide. Don't lose it, it's a treasure. It's going to be painful; it's going to be an adventure, a roller coaster. Life is a roller coaster and it gets worse when you get old. Contrary to what you think, that it gets better when you know more - no, the more you know the more painful it is. You've been hurt. You arrive with a million scars and your armor is not thick. The more you age, the more you're fragile. But do it anyway. Go for it. Otherwise it means death.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy-mate rial or spiritual. We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.