Guy de Maupassant Quotes

I don't like confrontation.

I don't like conflict.

I hate confrontations.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Worse than war is the very fear of war.

... community is already in process of disillusion where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy.

Confrontation makes me nervous.

The root of war is fear.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

They [Russians] are the adversary, they - we're the adversary they love to hate.

The only thing that gets me high is the musky scent of my enemy's fear

The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.

Oh, no, I was afraid of that! I'd better go and hide.

Feares are divided in the midst.

I just don't like to go out and deal with the real world. It's scary.

I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time. What I have seen, what I've seen is so bad.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.