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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
— Ernest Hemingway
But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.
— Ernest Hemingway
All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
— Ernest Hemingway
Even if he was ever afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
— Ernest Hemingway
Coward," Pablo said bitterly. "You treat a man as coward because he has a tactical sense. Because he can see the results of an idiocy in advance. It is not cowardly to know what is foolish." "Neither is it foolish to know what is cowardly," said Anselmo, unable to resist making the phrase.
— Ernest Hemingway
She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after everyone else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.
— Ernest Hemingway
And just then it occurred to him that he was going to die. It came with a rush; not as a rush of water nor of wind; but of a sudden, evil-smelling emptiness and the odd thing was that the hyena slipped lightly along the edge of it.
— Ernest Hemingway
He was probably a coward," she said. "He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them." "I don't know. It's hard to see inside the head of the brave." "Yes. That's how they keep that way.
— Ernest Hemingway
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?
— Ernest Hemingway
You saw fear and apprehension. The fear was made by what he had been through. The apprehension was for the possibility of evil he imagined.
— Ernest Hemingway
In the danger there is certainty in the knowledge of what kind of options to use
— Ernest Hemingway
To worry was as bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.
— Ernest Hemingway