Quotes About Running Away From Life

#1. Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out, air them, get over them, and go on without the burden of yesterday.

Joan D. Chittister

#2. Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life ...

Carl Jung

#3. Frances Stevens: Mother, this is why I've had to spend half my life running around the world after youto keep men like this away from you.
Mrs. Stevens: Well after this, let me run my own interference. It looks like the blockers are having all the fun.

John Michael Hayes

#4. That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

#5. Not that I have any little kids running around I need to keep away from the guns. I had any kids I'd get rid of the guns. Nothing more dangerous to the life of a child than a house full of firearms. Nothing more dangerous except maybe a parent.

Charlie Huston

#6. Life is for running at full on, not running away from with a whimper ...

John J. Ainsworth

#7. I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

Mitch Albom

#8. [ ... ] if you don't know what you're running away from, chances are you'll bring it along anywhere you go.

Alice Walsh

#9. Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path.

Mark Batterson

#10. Freedom is about life or death, I would rather die fighting for it than die running away from the oppressor

Peter Mutanda

#11. The writer is often faced with two choices
turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.

Chinua Achebe

#12. Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.

Ziggy Marley

#13. It's because you're different. You can't live life by rules others give you. In that way, you and I are the same. You have to find your own rules. All my life I've been running away from their rules, Hayat. All my life. You will be the same.

Ayad Akhtar

#14. If he could do one thing, he could run. He had spent his life running, secrets spitting at his back.

Brenda Sutton Rose

#15. I could still turn back before I pass the last houses and really have to commit to this.

Claire Wong

#16. Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary it means accepting it as it comes ... To accept is to say yes to life in its entirety.

Paul Tournier

#17. My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.

Jon Foreman

#18. But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.

Eric Wright

#19. Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid of the complexities of this life, nor the stark simplicity of death.

Frederick Lenz

#20. She knew, with all her heart that running away from the country's top relationship coach was as good as saying, 'there's no hope for me, ever'!

Diane Hall

#21. Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done things are done every day, Henry. It's part of modern life. I've done most of them myself.

Graham Greene

#22. What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?

Morgan Matson

#23. You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

Laura Dern

#24. You cannot run away from the truth because truth will find you.

ColoZeus Benz

#25. I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.

Stanley Cavell

#26. WHEN ASKED, CHARLENE had always explained away her life as a series of false starts that finally had disqualified her from running the race.

Reif Larsen

#27. We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America
as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.

D.H. Lawrence

#28. Baby, I'm so sorry. You know I wouldn't feel right, if I ran away from my responsibilities. I'd have to live with that decision for the rest of my life. My being in the war could save lives. My running away will only save mine. It's a selfish decision to make. I'll come back to you. I promise.

Jason Medina

#29. Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.

Frederick Lenz

#30. Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

Helen Mirren

#31. So do you think there's more to her than meets the eye!" he teased, and Alex cursed herself for being so easy to read.
"My guess is she's running from something.
"No shit Sherlock", she agreed silently. "Probably a guy. It's nearly always a guy.

Melissa Hill

#32. I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.

Joseph Heller

#33. I just know I was part of a moment, and everyone showed up with love. I'm just blown away by this all but you can feel it in listening [Forest Green], and it's hard to listen 'cos sometimes life distracts you or you run away from listening. We didn't know what we were doing.

Andy Kim

#34. Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just naturally accept whatever comes into life.

Frederick Lenz

#35. To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part of your physical condition and see that these aspects are not really indigenous to what you are.

Frederick Lenz

#36. Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

Lena Dunham

#37. Death doesn't come running, but you can't run away from it, neither; nor must you be helping it along.

Ivan Turgenev

#38. You can run, but what are you running from? Your life? You can't run away from your life.

Edna Ferber

#39. To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger, and danger has
become so rare in modern life.

Oscar Wilde

#40. When a man starts running away from things in life he builds up a whole chain of complexes and fear.

Erle Stanley Gardner

#41. You're all so glued to your phones, tablets, and computers that life isn't even running away from you at this point; it's strolling, taking its own sweet time because it knows damn well you're not going to pull your nose out of your Facebook page long enough to realize it's already gone.

Corey Taylor

#42. Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

Chuck Palahniuk

#43. When running away, I recommend arriving with keys. Makes you feel like you're actually in control of the situation instead of on the lam from your life.

Vanina Marsot

#44. The first time I saw her had been an accident. I was racing through the woods, attempting to run away from what I am, from the life I lived. Before I even heard her I caught her scent and I was lost. I stopped running and turned, seeking out what called to me. When I found her my life changed.

Cambria Hebert

#45. You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.

Steve "Lips" Kudlow

#46. This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself.
The practice is always to go back to oneself.

Nhat Hanh

#47. The Secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative stay smiling and keep running.

Fauja Singh

#48. People, at least a few like me, have this weird tendency of running away from things when they are their own, and racing after them obsessively when they are gone.

Mita Jain

#49. An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

Wentworth Miller

#50. I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

Lorrie Moore

#51. I told her running away from your problems doesn't solve anything. Really it just hurts the people who count on you.

Kyle Beachy

#52. Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.

Pema Chodron

#53. The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.

Tony Kushner