Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.