Running Away Quotes - Page 6

• You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because they’re lonely. The past and memories are very lonely things. I don’t believe in God. Because he doesn’t have a fixed form. The past certainly does exist, even in a world where the future doesn’t have a fixed form. Even if it’s being colored by misunderstandings and delusions, a person’s past can’t be anything but the truth as long as he believes in it. If that’s what you base your actions or your way of life on, isn’t that like being god?

  Ryohgo Narita

  Running, Lonely, Memories

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• Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Years, Monsters

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.10, Penguin

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• I will not trust you, I, Nor longer stay in your curst company. Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray, My legs are longer though, to run away.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Hands, Legs

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.38, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• I got here when I was 12, I found out I was undocumented when I was 16, I became a journalist when I was 17, and all I ever did was write other stories to run away from myself.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Running, Writing, Journalist

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her... One last time.

  Malorie Blackman

  Running, Trying, Noughts And Crosses

  Malorie Blackman (2009). “Naughts & Crosses”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

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• If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you’ll have to let me know. I’d like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I’m not sure which.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Men, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1217, Simon and Schuster

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• Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Running, Stronger, Tests

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Midnighters #3: Blue Noon”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Art, Moving

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• Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Running, Arriving

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.180, Vintage

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• Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Running, Home, Cupcakes

  "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler". Book by L. Konigsburg, 1967.

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• 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

  Running, Ideas, Want

  William Saroyan, Leo Hamalian (1990). “Madness in the Family”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• Got to keep thatin mind. I'm a ninja now... I swore I'd never freeze up or run away again... AND I WON'T...!

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Running, Mind, Ninja

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• Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".

  Margaret Wise Brown

  Mother, Running, Bunnies

  Margaret Wise Brown (1972). “The Runaway Bunny”

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• It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Cutting, Given

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 28, 2013

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• All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

  Joan Chen

  Inspirational, Running, Teenager

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Running, Thinking, Bodyguard

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

  Denis Diderot

  Death, Running, Hate

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.

  John Wyndham

  Running, Ifs

  John Wyndham (1958). “The chrysalids”

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• It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It would be good to be a dog, I thought. You would feel safe surrounded by all of these leggy objects that never tried to run away.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Running, Dog, House

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• GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to nothing for color. Next to nothing for use. But a crop is a crop, And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?

  Robert Frost

  Running, Light, Color

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• Vladimir did great things—so could she. Besides, they come first, right?" "Not always." I stared. I'd had they come first drilled into me since I was a child. It was what all guardians believed. Only the dhampirs who'd run away from their duty didn't subscribe to that. What he said was almost like treason. "Sometimes, Rose, you have to know when to put yourself first.

  Richelle Mead

  Running, Children, Rose

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.160, Penguin

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• How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Men, Foolish

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• What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

  Albert Camus

  Running, Ugly, Settling

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets, 1935-1942”

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• I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. No one dares to cherish What I choose to crave. Never have I hungered, For that I did not have I am a kings daughter, And I grow old within The prison of my person, The shackles of my skin. And I would run away And beg from door to door, Just to see your shadow Once, and never more.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Daughter, Running, Kings

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• Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.

  Alice Hoffman

  Running, Thinking, Should Have

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