best quotations about
Running away |
and Fleeing, Escape
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Quotations
 | We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. — Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general 15 likes |
 | Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 9 likes |
 | On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it. — Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer 7 likes |
 | Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 6 likes |
 | Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto. — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 6 likes |
 | Real men despise battle, but will never run from it. — George Washington, 1732-1799, the first American President 6 likes |
 | I flee who chases me and chase who flees me. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 5 likes |
 | One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 5 likes |
 | When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 5 likes |
| One can run away from anything but oneself. — Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer 5 likes |
 | When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it. — Pliny the Elder, 23-79 μ.X., Roman natural philosopher 5 likes |
 | In Love, victory goes to the man who runs away. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 4 likes |
 | Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 4 likes |
 | The public is a ferocious beast: one must chain it up or flee from it. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 4 likes |
 | We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue. — Philip Sidney, 1554-1586, English poet & courtier 3 likes |
 | The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 3 likes |
 | So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 3 likes |
 | We read in Rabelais of how the Devil took flight when the woman showed him her vulva. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
 | A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Richard III 2 likes |
 | We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it. |
 | We have to knock, knock on our destiny, to open the door, to escape! |
 | Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken. |
 | Do not stay for a single day in a place where these five do not exist: a rich man, a king, a Brahman who knows the Vedas, a river and a doctor. |
 | You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? |
 | I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned. |
 | Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. |
 | I'll teach you to jump on the wind's back and then away we go. |
 | For the quitter, there is neither friend nor faithful companion. Ουκ έστι φεύγοντι φίλος και πιστός εταίρος. |
Quotes in Verse
 | Parting is all we know of Heaven, and all we need of Hell. |
Funny Quotes
 | A good friend is worth pursuing but why would a good friend be running away? — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | They always say that when a ship is about to sink in the open sea, rats sense the danger long before men do and all run away together. Question: where can they go? |
Ancient Greek
 | Running away comes with many hardships. Πόλλ’ εφέλκεται φυγή κακά ξυν αυτή. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Medea 4 likes |
 | The man who runs away will fight anyway. Ανήρ ο φεύγων και πάλι μαχήσεται. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 4 likes |
Proverbs
 | Rats desert a sinking ship. 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Run, Forrest, run. Run, Forrest! — from the film Forrest Gump (1994) 3 likes |
