Quotes about Courage

I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

If we were going to die would you tell me? I dont know. We're not going to die.

But nothing is crueler than a coward, and the slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining.

Dont let go. Okay. No matter what. No matter what.

I will do what I promised, he whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.

You have to carry the fire.

I'm fixin to go do somethin dumbern hell but I'm goin anyways. If I dont come back tell Mother I love her. Your mother's dead Llewelyn. Well I'll tell her myself then.

I knew that courage came with less struggle for some than for others but I believed that anyone who desired it could have it.

Glanton could see crouched in a corner a Mexican or halfbreed boy maybe twelve years old. He was naked save for a pair of old calzones and makeshift sandals of uncured hide. He glared back at Glanton with a sort of terrified insolence.

All courage was a form of constancy. It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

If you carry your past into battle you are riding to your death.

You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesnt mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.