“It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe”

“cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never tastes of death but once, it seems to me most strange that men should fear seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come!”

“Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.”

“I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths.For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.”

“- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.”

“But I believe there is no difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.”