Top 100 Running Away From Quotes
#1. Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?
Shirley Jackson
#2. 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
#3. I'm constantly running away from everything. I'm running away from things on a daily basis. I run away from relationships. I run away from responsibilities.
Norman Reedus
#4. Because you're making a habit out of running away from me.
Maya Banks
#5. I was running away from dating for the sake of running because I had gotten all too used to being on my own and not having to deal with anyone else's crap, be it good crap or bad crap.
Stephanie Celeste Perkins
#6. You know how I feel about you constantly running away from your problems. It's not healthy. And they always catch up to you sooner or later.
Monica Murphy
#7. Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#8. Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
Meister Eckhart
#9. All I see is someone running away from who he really is.
I ain't running away, I called back.
And that was the biggest lie I'd ever told.
John Ritter
#10. You're scared. You don't want to make the difficult choice and you're running away from me.
Tahereh Mafi
#11. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
Eric Hoffer
#12. How far will you run, before you realize you're not running away from me? You're running to me.
Joey W. Hill
#13. I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.
John Howard
#14. I hate that I got dealt shitty parents! I hate how you make me feel like scum! I hate that you're always running away from me! And I hate that I ever fucking gave you the power to destroy me!
Adriana Law
#15. Me & my fellow fairies are running away from a huge monster that keeps destroying our home land,sobbed Farina.
The monster is terribly scary,has huge jaws, creates clouds of smoke & makes loads of noise everywhere it goes.
Magda M. Olchawska
#16. I've never fit in in any music world. I've always been an outsider. I mean, the fact that I live in Indiana - I live in a fly-over state. I'm not running away from anything, that's the problem. Most people go to cities because they don't like where they come from.
John Mellencamp
#17. Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.
Sue Monk Kidd
#18. We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.
Ann Richards
#19. It took me 14 years to write 'Crazy Brave' because I kept changing the form and I also kept running away from the story. I said I don't really want to write about myself. But it's about writing about memory.
Joy Harjo
#20. Well, I'm not running away from home, I'm running away to home." "Oh,
Sara Pennypacker
#21. You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.
Lester Holt
#22. I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?
Goldie Hawn
#23. I have always been running away from dance numbers. That's been my problem.
Sunny Deol
#24. Rose found her solace in her religion.
I tried to find my own solace in running away from my own.
Andie J Fessey
#25. It's that zombie virus thing that was on the news!" shouted a man in a Starfleet uniform. It was Next Generation command red, but he was running away from the danger, not toward it. Maybe that was how the command crew stayed alive. "They'll eat you if you stay here!" "They
Mira Grant
#26. 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
#27. I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#28. 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
#29. One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite insuperable obstacles to his running away from it.
G.K. Chesterton
#30. 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
#31. Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.
Nikita Gill
#32. And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?"
"Can't girls seek their fortune?"
"I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.
Terry Pratchett
#33. I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's running away from us
from you, from me, from his sister, from himself, too. Who wants to be himself, who wants to be so little, and so captured and limited?
William, Saroyan
#34. She had tried running away from her problems but now knew she would have to face them.
Paul Levine
#35. Listen to me, Madison. I can't have you running away from me. I know you needed some time today to process and work through everything, but don't push me away. I don't like it. I want to be the one you run to, not the one you run from.
J. Sterling
#36. I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.
Jamie Redknapp
#37. From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. I'm generalizing, of course.
Haruki Murakami
#38. My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. 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
#40. I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.
Lisa Kleypas
#41. Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared
Alan Watts
#42. If you were running away from me, down a straight hallway with an oiled hardwood floor, and I had a machine gun and a pointy mustache, I still couldn't hit you with a bowling ball. But what are you doing? You should be running toward love, not away from it.
Jarod Kintz
#43. I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California ... I feel like a criminal running away from a crime I did not commit. And this crime is that I am a Filipino in America.
Carlos Bulosan
#44. It's bizarre. In middle school, I thought girls were running away from me, so when they ask for a picture now, I'm like, 'Really, what?!'
Jacob Artist
#45. Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
William Hazlitt
#46. By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.
Baba Hari Dass
#47. When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.
Haruki Murakami
#48. 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
#49. If you find yourself running away from something and then suddenly you're isolated in a vacuum, then you have to deal with all the inherent truths and learning things about yourself and the people that are around you.
John Gallagher Jr.
#50. I reckon it was always going to happen, one way or another. She wasn't made right for this world. She'd been running away from it since she was nine.
Tana French
#51. Meditation is a silent way of looking at resistance. You're not running away from it
you're sitting with the resistance ... basically you're trying to follow the resistance. And I think that's very interesting.
Rodney Yee
#52. It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
G.K. Chesterton
#53. I was just running away from the person I'd been for the past five years. I wasn't particularly pleased with the person I was now, but I had hated and despised the other one, and I was glad to be rid of her face.
Ian Fleming
#54. Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right. Those who simply run away from sin are half-Christians. Our calling is much higher than simply running away from what's wrong. We're called to chase lions.
Mark Batterson
#55. If you define yourself by what you're running away from, then how do you know when you've arrived at where you're going to?
Julia Kent
#56. I was rather fond of her, but I was even fonder of my vices, my mania for running away from everywhere in search of God knows what, driven, I suppose, by stupid pride, by a sense of some sort of superiority
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#57. I wasn't heading toward a future I wanted as much as I was running away from one I didn't.
Vicki Pettersson
#58. Running away from her was the hardest thing he'd ever done, he had no doubt of it.
James Dashner
#59. Sometimes, my books start with a scene I see in my mind, such as a woman in a wedding dress running away from her wedding like in 'Embers of Love.' Sometimes, a book can start with a character.
Tracie Peterson
#60. Running away from love is never any good at all, to our sort. It only deepens the feeling, and it's better to stay and wear it down.
Rachel Ferguson
#61. Rincewind had been his assistant and his friend, and was a good man when it came to peeling a banana. He had also been uniquely good at running away from things. He was not, the Librarian considered, the type to be easily caught. There
Terry Pratchett
#62. Yes, this little vacation was just what the doctor ordered, if that doctor was of the philosophy of running away from your problems. I needed space, I needed to clear my head, and I needed to get back on track. Somehow, somewhere, I'd fallen off course.
Ophelia London
#63. In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#64. I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.
Green Day
#65. The more women walk around in sweat pants, the harder it is to tell who's out jogging and who's running away from a mugger.
Dana Gould
#66. The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice running away from lovesick gods. But still, it was a little humiliating to be slower than a tree.
Rick Riordan
#67. Rain Valley newcomers pretty much fell into two groups: people running away from something and people running away from everything.
Kristin Hannah
#68. I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
Paul Newman
#69. Freedom is about life or death, I would rather die fighting for it than die running away from the oppressor
Peter Mutanda
#70. Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.
Marc Ribot
#71. Did you ever wonder why Spot runs so much? He's running away from Dick and Jane and Sally, the dullest family in the world.
George R R Martin
#72. In some ways, except that in that movie [Skyfall] I was mostly screaming and running away from the bad guys, whereas in this one I'm generally jumping into the action and fighting with them. So, yeah, it was somewhat similar, but also very different.
Naomie Harris
#73. I watched my beautiful sister running ... and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.
Alice Sebold
#74. She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.
J.K. Rowling
#75. She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.
Beatrice Sparks
#76. 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
#77. [ ... ] if you don't know what you're running away from, chances are you'll bring it along anywhere you go.
Alice Walsh
#78. Life is for running at full on, not running away from with a whimper ...
John J. Ainsworth
#79. Even in the running away from hurting, there is hurting.
In opening unprotected to the experience
that is enslaving you with its torment,
there is the willingness to be free.
Are you willing? Or do yo just want to
wait until the world finally gets it and does it your way?
Gangaji
#80. Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running away from it or letting it run us. But the only place you'll ever meet the real is now-here.
Richard Rohr
#82. Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.
Rabindranath Tagore
#83. I want to stop running away from everything.
I want to find something to run toward.
Hannah Harrington
#84. Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
John W. Gardner
#85. The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.
Leonard Read
#86. To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger, and danger has
become so rare in modern life.
Oscar Wilde
#87. When a man starts running away from things in life he builds up a whole chain of complexes and fear.
Erle Stanley Gardner
#89. The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.
Eartha Kitt
#90. As long as you're running away from a part of yourself, you can't see immortality.
Frederick Lenz
#91. People think by running away from a negative situation, they will be rid of it, but the same situation confronts them wherever they go. They will meet the same experiences until they have learned their lessons.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#92. We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
Margaret Atwood
#93. You need to be careful of people who tell you that adventure exists at the next turn--because it turns out that they are not really walking into a story, but running away from a history that chases them throughout time.
Christopher Herz
#94. If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.
George Gamow
#96. What is it with you and running away from me?" he asked quizzically, slinging an arm over my shoulder.
"Maybe you're hideous, and I can't stand the sight of your face," I offered casually.
He looked thoughtful. "Mmm, no, that's not it.
Temple West
#97. You can't keep running away from me. From us.
Jaci Burton
#98. Love was like an avalanche, with Sephy and I hand-in-hand racing like hell to get out of it's way-only, instead of running away from it, we kept running straight towards it.
Malorie Blackman
#99. I don't believe in angels but the moon is now dead for me. The last glass of wine is gone before the thirst I'm suffering from. The blue grass lost its way running away from your sails.
Roque Dalton
#100. We will not conquer our obstacles by running away from them. Speed does not matter, just that we do not stop.
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