There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
And I've fallen. So hard. I've hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have I felt this. Nothing like this. I've felt shame and cowardice, weakness and strength. I've known terror and indifference, self-hate and general disgust. I've seen things that cannot be unseen. And yet I've known nothing like this terrible, horrible, paralyzing feeling. I feel crippled. Desperate and out of control. And it keeps getting worse. Every day I feel sick. Empty and somehow aching. Love is a heartless bastard.