quotes about Running Away
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It's a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don't know the answer. I don't know what I'd do, except run away.
-- Alexander Masters -
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
-- Bernhard SchlinkSource : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.180, Vintage
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You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.
-- Brad WarnerSource : Brad Warner (2009). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.71, New World Library
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
-- Carlos Mesa -
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It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.
-- Casey Robinson -
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
-- Dag Hammarskjold -
No more running away from something or someone or myself.
-- Daul KimSource : "Supermodel Daul Kim found hanged after posting web messages" by Henry Samuel, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 20, 2009.
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A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.
-- Deborah Wiles -
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I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.
-- Diosdado MacapagalSource : "World: Common Man's President". During campaign stops in 1961, Time, content.time.com. November 24, 1961.
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Just go up to somebody on the street and say 'You're it!' and then run away.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?
-- Goldie Hawn -
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You cannot run away from what’s in your heart.
-- Helen Simonson -
In love, the one who runs away is the winner.
-- Henri Matisse -
I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.
-- Jamie Redknapp -
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Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.
-- John Wayne -
If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.
-- John WyndhamSource : John Wyndham (1958). “The chrysalids”
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My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.
-- Jon Foreman -
Everything we run away from has power over us;everything we go through,we conquer.
-- Joyce Meyer -
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
-- Larry David -
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 -
What you can't run away from, you have to face
-- Lilith SaintcrowSource : Lilith Saintcrow (2011). “Dante Valentine”, p.590, Hachette UK
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‎"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.
-- M.J. Rose -
There is no running away from a great grief.
-- Mary Russell MitfordSource : Mary Russell Mitford (1841). “The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse, Viz Our Village, Belford Regis, Country Stories, Finden's Tableaux, Foscari, Julian, Rienzi, Charles the First”, p.227
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We can not run away from our youth. We have to put them in the lead
-- Michel Sidibe -
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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 ReedusSource : "Hot Topic: Norman Reedus" by Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. March 29, 2013.
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Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.
-- Paulo Coelho -
We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.
-- Richard L. Evans -
It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
-- Samuel West -
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Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?
-- Sara Gruen -
The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.
-- Saul Williams -
I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.
-- Sherwood AndersonSource : Sherwood Anderson (2012). “Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)”, p.220, Library of America
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Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?
-- Shirley JacksonSource : Shirley Jackson (2009). “Just an Ordinary Day: Stories”, p.161, Bantam
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
-- Sojourner Truth -
Please don't run away. And, um, I'd rather you didn't kick me again either.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
If you run away from trouble, it always follows.
-- Tanith Lee -
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I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.
-- Ursula Andress -
Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.
-- Wes Fesler -
People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.
-- William TrevorSource : William Trevor (2009). “Love and Summer”, p.172, Penguin UK
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We have a Russian proverb, "Those who are doomed to be sunk will never be hanged." I think that you shouldn't run away from what is in front of you. You should do what you have to do, and leave to it. What can you do? Hire bodyguards? Stop doing anything? It will not save you either.
-- Ilya Ponomarev -
When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We leave our place where we belong—close to his heart.
-- Sally Lloyd-Jones -
If God is calling you to do something, do it! You can't run away from God!
-- Angus Buchan -
We're all running away. Some of us just don't get very far.
-- John DunningSource : John Dunning (2004). “Booked Twice: Booked to Die and The Bookman's Wake”, p.371, Simon and Schuster
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