“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”

— G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1909), Ch. 6

About G. K. Chesterton

1874 – 1936

English writer, critic and Christian apologist, author of the Father Brown mysteries and 'Orthodoxy'.

“The center of every man's existence is a dream.”

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“Yes, as my swift days near their goal 'Tis all that I implore In life and death a chainless soul With courage to endure.”

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent.”

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”