Top 86 Hiding From Life Quotes
#2. So for online people, death doesn't happen. People go online to hide from death and wind up hiding from life.
Joe Hill
#3. She had fooled herself into believing she was living the life she'd always dreamed of living when all she had been doing was hiding from it.
Teresa Medeiros
#4. I wonder: instead of retreating and hiding, instead of pining for the way it was, what if I accept the way it is? This strikes me as both the most obvious thing in the world and the most profound.
Ann Kidd Taylor
#6. Get a move on, pal, life goes on happening while you're hiding ...
Dawn French
#7. It was strange to be naked in front of anybody. It was like that cold water out there in the bay: scary, you didn't think you could stand it, but then you plunged in and pretty soon you got used to it. There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.
Lev Grossman
#8. We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?
Roberto Bolano
#9. I was afraid the staff would laugh at me - and as frightened as I was, the thought of derision frightened me even more. In retrospect, it was a life-threatening deception, somewhat along the lines of hiding recurrent chest pains from one's cardiologist from embarrassment. Nearly
Elyn R. Saks
#10. I swear I've spent half my life hiding behind a couch and the other half wondering why no one was paying attention to me. On
Sarah Hepola
#11. My father sighed, hiding behind the sad smile that
followed him like a shadow all through his life.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#12. You never know who is going to adore the person you're hiding
but it's worth finding out
Danielle Jordan
#13. Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.
Franz Kafka
#14. Two choices. One future. I was so sick of running. So sick of hiding. So sick of being weak . I didn't run. I didn't deny it. Instead, I held my chin high and claimed all that I'd achieved. I'd won; they'd lost. So be it if my life was now over.
Pepper Winters
#15. Human beings mistakenly believed alcohol was a disguise that stopped real life from recognizing them. In fact, it was just a temporary hiding hole ...
Colin Cotterill
#16. All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper; we all have hidden sides. And there's some secrets we don't even reveal to ourselves.
Nenia Campbell
#17. I am sensitive soul; I feel with the moon,
I use to be judged for my indifference, now I see their all just hiding behind false truths.
Nikki Rowe
#18. You treat me like a child, but I know what I fucking know. You're scared. Love comes with responsibilities, and you've been hiding from them your whole life.
Bijou Hunter
#19. Just understanding life as it is, and living it with courage; not escaping from it, not hiding from it, facing it with courage, whatsoever it is, good or bad, divine or evil, heaven or hell.
Osho
#20. I've always enjoyed hiding behind these characters. It's a strange thing, you're more comfortable as a character than you are in life. I could stand up in front of, it doesn't matter how many people, as a character. But if I had to do it as myself and give a speech, I would be liquid.
Johnny Depp
#21. You can't begin to change your life while hiding in the shadows of another. Sooner or later, you have to stand strong and accept the light in order to unleash your magic. ~ Pink Pearl the Moluccan
Jes Fuhrmann
#22. Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.
Edwidge Danticat
#23. Let's all try to be fearless, sometimes we wish for the most perfect of outcomes and we arrive at the most unforgettable. Life can be scary and leave us hiding, but when we come out of hiding, we may realize, that life was the one thing that we could always count on ...
Holly Hood
#24. Eddie admitted that some of his life he'd spent hiding from God, and the rest of the time he thought he went unnoticed.
Mitch Albom
#25. I thought of going the rest of my life pretending I sprang to life from nothing at sixteen years old and felt my cheeks flush with shame and anger. I was so tired of cowering. I was so tired of hiding. I wanted to tell the truth, to say it out loud.
Meredith Russo
#26. Are you facing a trial today? Perhaps fog is hiding the path of life from you and you don't know which way to go. God gives you the answer for trials - stay close to Him. Allow Him to guide you through the stormy path, and trust His Word for comfort and guidance.
Paul Chappell
#27. When I was last in Paris I was dirt poor, hiding from the Vietnam War. One night, in an old church, I considered taking my life. I didn't know how to be so young and not belong anywhere, stuck among so many perplexing melodies.
Philip Schultz
#28. All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you'll be free. You can't spend the rest of your life hiding from yourself; always afraid that your memories will incapacitate you, and they will if you continue to bury them.
J.D. Stroube
#29. If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.
Ziggy Marley
#30. Once in a while, our thoughts drift and fade, back into the recessed hiding places where our memories are stored. At times we recall them- the memories of our loves, our youths, our life experiences. These dreams appear to us, and for seconds, minutes, or hours we are there once again.
James Michael Pratt
#31. Go ahead, kill me! But live with this: All those people die!
For the rest of your life, somewhere behind the feeds, that human part of you hiding down deep will always wonder how much pain you could have prevented if you hadn't been so weak!
Rick Remender
#32. I spent half my childhood in the shadows. Hiding from my father or my brother. Creeping from a place of solitude to another. Seeing while unseen, and pretending I was a part of what I saw. Making up a life where I wasn't an outcast.
Joe Abercrombie
#33. You live your day-to-day life hiding the essence of who you are; you don't want to let someone into that life who won't accept you for that same thing.
Kristen Ashley
#34. Death is like that, it blinks, we blink; not always able to see the Stop signs, hiding behind trees in the corner of the roads.
Anthony Liccione
#35. In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.
Chogyam Trungpa
#36. I had a dream about you last night. Our vices had wings and our fears could breathe fire. There was nowhere to hide and we were trapped alive. So you reached for your sword and slashed my arm, waking me and saving my life.
Crystal Woods
#37. When you're looking for me, I am hiding in your heart, just find me with your light.
Debasish Mridha
#38. I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.
Robert Crumb
#39. I know now who I am, what I have been hiding from my entire life, and why I am the way I am. I know I am not broken, and that there's nothing wrong with me.
Scott Hildreth
#40. Do not feel fear because if you live your life in fear you're not living your hiding.
Salman Aditya
#41. I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
Ira Sachs
#42. It is a map of our attitude toward life, a labyrinthine pathway to long-forgotten hiding places inside, a diagram of our subconscious mind.
Vimala Rodgers
#43. If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.
Stefanie Schneider
#44. O hiding hair and dewy eyes, I am no more with life and death, My heart upon his warm heart lies, My breath is mixed into his breath.
W.B.Yeats
#45. I'd rather the world considered me crazy while I go down fighting than spend the rest of my life hiding from the truth.
Gena Showalter
#46. We watch her walk into the spotlight she's been been hiding from most of her life. Sure, friendship is all about believing in someone so hard they believe it, too. Sure, it's about trust. But if anyone hurts her tonight, it's about ripping them apart with my bare hands and really enjoying it.
Cath Crowley
#47. Don't live life hiding behind your past. Live for the moment. When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day, a year or fifty years
Nicole Williams
#48. The best thing that can happen in a relationship is when you are the same person you were before the relationship started. You are not hiding anything, and you still have a life of your own. The other best thing is sex - that is a super positive.
Greg Behrendt
#49. Lou could imagine Rich hiding within. She closed her eyes, letting her mind wander, search, and finally focus on him. Hurry up, Rich, she thought. Feeling the tug of connection, a thrill of anticipation ran up her spine. Lou didn't let herself nudge events often, but she did it today.
Danika Stone
#50. I always drastically changed my look for each role. It's gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there's no hiding.
Nick Offerman
#51. How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I've really been doing is running?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#52. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#53. The moment when you realize no one understands, no one ever did, no one ever will.
You were alone, you always will be.
But may be, just may be, someone will look up to you someday. And when they do, remember to hide those tearful eyes, to smile and to say - look, life's so good.
Sanhita Baruah
#54. He was so busy looking for the good in people, he didn't see the knife they're hiding.
Alexandra Bracken
#55. A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.
Christopher Buehlman
#56. Hey, its not much of a closet is it?"
"No. Its not. I don't like closets. Life's to short to spend hiding in the dark.
Josh Lanyon
#57. Please stop hiding and actually live your life." He pauses long enough to squeeze my shoulder. "It's killing me to watch you fade into the background.
Aly Martinez
#58. I'd spent my whole human life not making waves, hiding what I was, trying not to be noticed.
Until now.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#59. Even the darkest cloud had a silver lining; you can either miss it as you run away to a hiding place as darkness approaches you or you can go seeking it, empowered with the ardent desire to find happiness in life.
Maliny Mohan
#60. Years ago there was an old man I knew that told me he didn't trust me, because people with beards were hiding from something. I told him, That's true, I'm hiding from the barber!!
Neil Leckman
#61. Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart - emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.
Brandon Sanderson
#63. I am very aware of the fact that I'm not right. I know hiding under tables and in bathrooms isn't normal. I know that I've carved out a life that lets me hide when I need to because I wouldn't survive any other way.
Jenny Lawson
#64. Some say men continually war against circumstances, but I say they perpetually flee. What are the works of men if not a momentary respite, a hiding place soon to be discovered by catastrophe? Life is endless flight before the hunter we call the world. - EKYANNUS VIII, 111 APHORISMS Spring,
R. Scott Bakker
#65. Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
John Updike
#66. Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.
Michael Marshall Smith
#67. Caring for someone is scary [ ... ] But you can't fear dictate your life [ ... ] Don't live life hiding behind your past, live right now. When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year or a hundred years
Nicole Williams
#68. It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.
Ali Vincent
#69. I always assume people are hiding parts of themselves from each other. People do that.
Kate Milford
#70. That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard. Joanna
Vicki Pettersson
#71. It's easy to never make a mistake, when you are hiding yourself away from the possibility of making mistakes. It's those who jump out of the nest who will fall and fly. Never judge the quality of an individual based upon how many mistakes they have made. It's easier not to make any.
C. JoyBell C.
#72. But Mother, I don't want to go. It's just that ... I have to. I can't spend the rest of my life hiding in the attic.
[ ... ]
I don't want to be a burden[ ... ]I want to do something with my life. Figure out ways to help other third kids. Make - make a difference in the world.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#73. Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.
Frederick William Robertson
#74. Problem is, the bathroom pass can't help you escape life. It's still there when you come out. Problems and crap don't go away hiding in the can.
Simone Elkeles
#75. When I shoot, I try to feel the body and the face and the weight of the actor, because the character until that moment is only in the pages of the script. And very often, I pull from the life of my actors. I'm always curious about what these characters and these actors are hiding about their lives.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#76. Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.
Frederick Lenz
#77. I just don't get it. I've spent my whole life hiding the things I can't do. Why run from the amazing things you can do?
Leigh Bardugo
#78. You're living life in real time, man, and we' ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes.
Ben Harper
#79. Jealous?" She looked livid now. "Why would I be jealous of this, this . . . thing? It's nothing more than a few strings of code and life experiences of some dirty peasants. I have a man now - a real man, not some hermit hiding among his books and theories!
Dima Zales
#80. The way I see it," Miles went on, "it's no good hiding yourself away, like Pa and lots of other people. And it's no good just thinking of your own pleasure, either. People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.
Natalie Babbitt
#81. IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#82. If I want my life to matter, these eyes can't see who I really am.
Who I'm striving hard not to be.
The homeless girl hiding in front of them.
Brenda Rufener
#83. Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live.
Orson Scott Card
#84. Before the magic of recovery, I thought a perfect weekend involved hiding from myself with all the distractions life provides.
David W. Earle
#85. But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.
Cesare Pavese
#86. But how many other kinds of life are there that I could learn to feel? Who knows where thought is hiding? . . .
Diane Duane
