Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

When I write from the point of view of a child or a young person, I am trying to tell the truth as an adult voice sometimes cannot. We are so often wrapped in the garment of trying to reassure ourselves that we are not afraid.

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn't say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

People think I'm fearless. But I'm human.

When we shrug and say we don't care, it's usually a lie. Every girl cares. We've just been taught not to expose ourselves by showing it. What the world needs now is girls and women who aren't afraid to care - who are done saying, 'Whatever.'

I think I'm a pretty brave girl, but I wouldn't say I'm fearless.