Push People Away Quotes

#1. Is that why you push people away?" he whispered. "So they can't get close enough to hurt you when they're gone?

Jodi Picoult

#2. I keep staring, and I wonder why we push people away. There are a thousands reasons, really, but I think the biggest one - the most important one - is if we don't, they get close. And then they can see.

Kelsey Sutton

#3. You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back

Laura Moriarty

#4. The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

Cecelia Ahern

#5. You push people away, Marley. You don't realise it, but you do. You close yourself off to anyone and anything that doesn't fit in your perfect little hamster ball of life. But you can't experience love only on your own terms. It doesn't work that way.

Kate Lattey

#6. Unfair. I was fighting with some core, self-fulfilling loneliness that made me push people away.

C.D. Reiss

#7. I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been through this kind of neglect and abuse is really to convince them that they are worthy of being loved. And I think because often they don't feel worthy of it, that's why they push people away.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#8. If you push people away for long enough, isolation become a terrible habit. People start to believe your prefer it.

Amy Harmon

#9. When you are used to being hurt, you will push people away - even those who really love you. Stop. Embrace love. It will change you.

Paula Heller Garland

#10. It's easier to show aggression than it is to feel insecure. It's easier to push people away and to live alone than to be emotionally exposed and vulnerable.

Debra Fileta

#11. What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#12. I want to communicate with people, and I want to make something that works, and that people like. I'm never purposefully trying to be antagonistic or shocking or anything that would push an audience away. I'm always hoping to reach as many people as I can.

Joe Swanberg

#13. There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

Douglas Adams

#14. The harder you try to gain approval from others the more you push them away

Shellie Palmer

#15. The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.

Cassia Leo

#16. It takes courage to say, "I need help" and to be vulnerable and accept advice from people who may be wiser than you are. It takes courage to die to ourselves so we can become fully alive in a love and hope and freedom that only come when we do push our pride away.

Anne Jackson

#17. I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or urging them to consider an alternative perspective, an answer can give them ammunition for future attacks against the gospel.

Randy Newman

#18. Only cowards push a button from thousands of miles away, or tens of thousands of feet up, to kill people who can't possibly fight back.

Bill Maher

#19. [C]ivilians are equally bewildering to the addict. I've watched people drink a glass and a half of wine and push away the rest. What exactly is the point of that?

David Carr

#20. I have seen people who find that grief gives them something they never had before, and no matter how terrible and real their loss they choose to hug that awfulness to them rather than push it away.

Iain M. Banks

#21. For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.

Paul Haggis

#22. The philosophy is that you push the power of decision making out to the periphery and away from the center. You give people the room to adapt, based on their experience and expertise. All you ask is that they talk to one another and take responsibility. That is what works.

Atul Gawande

#23. People who are hurting are often pushed away by members who draw wrong conclusions and make accusations. God is trying to draw them close with His love. We push them right on out the door with our disapproval.

Sandra M. Michelle

#24. I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me?
I don't know.
And I don't know how to make it stop.

Victoria Aveyard

#25. By pushing or forcing something upon people, you tend to push people further away.

Christopher Atkins

#26. When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.

Anurag Kashyap

#27. Sound should bring you in. We have people in all these specialized departments to make it one whole. They are supposed to work together to bring us into their world, not push us away. For example, rock music has to be loud, but it doesn't have to be too loud.

Donna McKechnie

#28. It is weird to see how people sometimes doesn't value and ignore the love and effort of the people who love them and try to stay. They push them away only to realise everything they did after they leave and make their memories as pillows to sleep over and cry upon it later.

Akshay Vasu

#29. I just wanted you to know that it's not you. It's me. It's all me, and if I push you away it's because I don't know how to pull you close. I'm not . . . I'm not good with people.

Jessica Clare

#30. Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the proper attitude on the path of love.

Frederick Lenz

#31. People, material and situation come in to our lives because of our thoughts and beliefs. When we don't want those experiences, we try to push them away. When we use our vital energy in resisting what we don't want, we attract more of it whether it's a person, circumstance or challenge.

Hina Hashmi

#32. And you know what happens when a bomb goes off? The truth about people comes out. Men leave their children and run away. Shopkeepers push aside wives and try to save their cash. People come and loot the shops. A blast reveals the truth about places. Don't forget what you're doing is noble.

Karan Mahajan

#33. Sometimes, people need you and it's so scary you push it away when actually you want it to be closer.

Jessica Thompson

#34. The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.

Boris Johnson

#35. Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.

Stella Blum

#36. The aim of promoting low down payments is to push prices back up so that fewer houses are going to be in negative equity and fewer people are going to walk away from the mortgages. That will save the from taking a loss on their junk mortgage loans.

Michael Hudson