Norman Mailer Quotes

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

Frankly, this is not cojones, this is cowardice.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

Only a fool is not afraid.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

I don't think I am hero material.

Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising.

Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.

I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

The sea hates a coward.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

Even in my bravest moment, I am a coward.

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

Coward is the most misused word in our society.

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.