Top 64 Quotes About Flees
#3. How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Franz Kafka
#5. A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
Jacques Maritain
#7. Pride flees when we compare ourselves to God instead of [to] other people.
Billy Graham
#8. Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity..
William Faulkner
#9. A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.
Helen Rowland
#10. Dracula shows his fangs, and the Okie flees through a cornfield. Cornstalks smack her face. "Help!" she screams to a sky full of crows. "He's not actually from Europe!
Karen Russell
#11. I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
Ovid
#12. Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.
Chief Seattle
#13. Death is the heritage of life; a man's vitality is like air in a bladder. Poinct this bubble and away, away, away, flees life, like the color of fading dream.
Jack Vance
#14. No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.
Greg Carlson
#15. Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.
Joyce Carol Oates
#16. A man's duty is like his shadow. He may cast his eyes away from it, yet it follows him even as he flees it - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
T.M. Bown
#17. When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body - or vagina - has to do the opposite.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#18. Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.
Stefan Zweig
#20. Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the body, flees away like a prisoner whose guard has fallen asleep, leaving the keys at the prison gate.
Gerard De Nerval
#21. Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#22. Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade;
When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees.
So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues,
But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.
Ovid
#23. 19 It will be like a man who flees from a lion only to have a bear confront him. He goes home and rests his hand against the wall only to have a snake bite him.
Anonymous
#24. Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it.
Israel Meir Kagan
#25. The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.
Martin Luther
#26. When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.
Billy Graham
#27. Satan is a relentless tormenter; you have to be a relentless Scripture Confessor until satan flees."
- Tytenisha, Confessions of a Praying Woman
Tytenisha L. Osgood
#28. No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom ... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.
Christopher McCandless
#29. In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.
Camille Paglia
#30. That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel
#31. SELF-MOCKERY IS AN UGLIER THING THAN ANY HUMAN FACE, IRIS ... YOU ARE SMART AND YOU ARE KIND. DON'T BETRAY THOSE IMPULSES IN YOURSELF. DON'T BELABOR THE LACK OF PHYSICAL BEAUTY, WHICH IN ANY CASE EVENTUALLY FLEES THOSE WHO HAVE IT AND MAKES THEM SAD.
Gregory Maguire
#33. Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Jose Marti
#34. Anger flees when the Spirit's fruit fills our hearts.
Billy Graham
#35. Flight usually intensifies the very thing one flees and establishes a special intimacy with it.
Thomas Moore
#36. Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
Moliere
#37. The most merciless thing in the world is love. When love flees, all that remains is memory to compensate.
Keith Donohue
#38. All night I carpenter
A space for the thing I am given,
A love
Of two wet eyes and a screech.
White spit
Of indifference!
The dark fruits revolve and fall.
The glass cracks across,
The image
Flees and aborts like dropped mercury
Sylvia Plath
#39. The loamy perfume
Of ferns, rain, earth, flees before
Mister poopie pants
Josh Lerman
#40. They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it; that encourages, this compels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.
Francis Quarles
#41. A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up.
George R R Martin
#42. In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.
Jon Winokur
#44. No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.
Clovis Chappell
#45. Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!
Aron Nimzowitsch
#47. Beauty doesn't die with the beholder; it moves on. Hiding in the shadows, afraid of the light, she flees to find another host, possessing the body like a demon in need of exorcising.
Jennifer Melzer
#48. The attitude of invincibility flees at the first encounter of injury, disease, or loss of a loved one.
Jonah Books
#49. The nights are his, but in the daytime you will hound him and hound him until he takes fright and flees or until you drag him, staked and screaming, into the sunlight!
Stephen King
#50. With man it is different. When he comes many of the larger animals instinctively leave the district entirely, seldom if ever to return; and thus it has always been with the great anthropoids. They flee man as man flees a pestilence.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#51. Why are you idle? If you don't grasp it first, it flees.' And even if you do grasp it, it will still flee. So you must match time's swiftness with your speed in using it, and you must drink quickly as though from a rapid stream that will not always flow. In
Seneca.
#52. There is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.
Frida Kahlo
#53. What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.
Ovid
#54. And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?
Rumi
#56. In the valley of unknown, in my moments of uncertainty, the clutter flees and silence allows me to hear the voice of the LORD
Jonah Books
#57. Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune,
That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.
Ovid
#58. Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.
Paul Gauguin
#59. Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.
Charles Baudelaire
#61. The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#62. There are two classes of people who hide themselves: the criminal who flees punishment, and the saint who through humility wishes to remain unknown.
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
#63. True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.
Joshua Harris
#64. Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.
Ovid
