James Nachtwey Quotes

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

There is nothing so satisfying as to be shot at without effect.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge Unable to step out into the sky Like that fearless flower --Sosuke Aizen,Flower on the Precipice

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

Free men stick their necks out.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.

Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

To save all we must risk all.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.