Fear of Confrontation Quotes

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

We all have those times in relationships, whether it's work or personal or family or whatever it is, where there's something that's eating at you and eating at you, and you want to say it to the person that you care about the most, but you're so afraid it's going to destroy everything. Like the fear of destruction keeps one from saying what they want to say - when, in actuality, by not saying it, things get worse. Because it's the entropy, the leak that doesn't get fixed.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.

If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well.

Looking back, the only person that really surprised me was Chris Vrenna only because I've known him since 1992, and for him not to be able to say it to my face, "Hey, I don't want to do this anymore." Instead, he said "I'll see you tomorrow" and then he never came back. I find that strange. I don't know if he is afraid of me or thinks I'm going to beat him over the head with something. I'm not like that.

Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that.

We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.

I am afraid of her, afraid of what she says-and thrilled by it too, because it means I don't have to accept that I am smaller than I once believed.

Coward is the most misused word in our society.

I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells.

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

In my early to mid-20s, a fear of confrontation made it difficult for me to end relationships in a mature or even quasi-sane way. Instead, I would hang on resentfully, praying that my doomed beau would end things first and spare me the displeasure. To add hindrance to hang-up, the men I chose were usually just as stoic as I was.

Rod's not very good at confrontations; he would rather walk away and avoid something rather than go into it.

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

I still feel like a weird kid who is about to take a punch in the face. So, I think it's permanent.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.