Natalia Kills Quotes

We've always been told to pretend as if we're not afraid.

Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling me anything I don't know already. 'Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up.' What's the point of saying that to me? If I relaxed my body now, I'd fall apart. I've always lived like this, and it's the only way I know how to go on living. If I relaxed for a second, I'd never find my way back. I'd go to pieces, and the pieces would be blown away. Why can't you see that? How can you talk about watching over me if you can't see that?

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

To defend oneself by alliance is proof of cowardice.

I am not brave. I am very weak. I am trying to overcome my problems. I do cry, I do break but I think that's normal.

Fear is trusting in your own power.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.

Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

I was afraid to express myself for a while.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

I absolutely love writing about the things that scare me, the things that keep me up at night. I don't quite know why. Perhaps because so many things do scare me, and this is my subconscious way of trying to exercise some control over things that go bump in the night!

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.