Courage Quote by Sherwood Anderson

“He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.”

— Julie Anne Long

“He smiles and shakes his head, a smile that’s bewildered and content and still pursed by that same tender sadness that visited him by…

— Dane Huckelbridge

“I kept trying to explain and he kept shouting until I began to cry from frustration. Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“It seems to me now almost incredibly wonderful that, with that swift fate hanging over us, men could go about their petty concerns as…

— H.G. Wells

“And I knew, as I had always known but somehow forgotten to remember in these past years, that I could never have done it,…

— Melanie Benjamin

“I waited for him to find an answer. Minutes passed. It came to me that he had quit. He had glimpsed a glorious ideal,…

— John Gardner

“It is a strange experience for a man of pride and feeling to know that his interests are in the control of strangers who…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within…

— Victor Hugo

“And I felt him to be more fragile still. I felt the need of protecting him, as if he himself were a flame that…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Still, he couldn’t reconcile with the way he felt every time their eyes met, a feeling he had never forgotten that resonated with his…

— Jennifer Silverwood

“Here were these two, bandying little phrases, drawing purses, looking at cards, and both unconscious of how inarticulate all their real feelings were. Neither…

— Theodore Dreiser

“You were just a caretaker. They didn't have to feel what you felt; they just had to be supported in feeling what they felt.”

— George Saunders