Running Away Quotes
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
"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
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers
Sally Lloyd-Jones (2012). “Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing”, p.23, Zonderkidz
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
We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989
Lilith Saintcrow (2011). “Dante Valentine”, p.590, Hachette UK
People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.
William Trevor (2009). “Love and Summer”, p.172, Penguin UK
If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.
John Wyndham (1958). “The chrysalids”
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.