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Running Away Quotes

I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….

I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….

Sojourner Truth (2012). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.29, Courier Corporation

You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

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

One can run away from anything but oneself.

"Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

Shirley Jackson (2009). “Just an Ordinary Day: Stories”, p.161, Bantam

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.

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

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Lilith Saintcrow (2011). “Dante Valentine”, p.590, Hachette UK

No more running away from something or someone or myself.

"Supermodel Daul Kim found hanged after posting web messages" by Henry Samuel, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 20, 2009.

People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.

William Trevor (2009). “Love and Summer”, p.172, Penguin UK

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

"The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 11, sc. 2, 1951.