Alive Quote by Peter De Vries

When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to…

— Mark Twain

The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

— Mason Cooley

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

— Emile M. Cioran

A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.

— Benjamin Franklin

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it…

— Charles de Gaulle

“Thus, the great irony: the person who is prepared to kill if they must to stop a murderous transgression by a human predator, is…

— Massad Ayoob

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

— Raymond E. Feist

The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.

— Saul Williams

Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words, a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate. On the other…

— Imre Kertesz

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

— Mark Twain

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

— Ash Sweeney

The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.

— Steven Pressfield