Quotes About Evasion

You're here," I continued. "At least you look as if you're here. But maybe you aren't. Maybe it's just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you've hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

But whether we fear death and refuse to face it, or whether we romanticize it, death is trivialized. Both despair and euphoria about death are an evasion. Death is neither depressing nor exciting; it is simply a fact of life.

That's it. Evasion is key.

He did not fear death exactly, but he had evaded it for so many years that it had come to seem formidable simply by virtue of that long act of evasion. In particular he feared dying in some undignified way, on the jakes or with his face in the porridge.

It was the autobiography of a man who could not face himself, an elaborate system of evasion and lies unredeemed by the artistic virtue of self-betrayal.

Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.

For me," she wrote, "poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose." Throughout

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Though you forget the way to the Temple, There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.

Whatever you have learned, Harry, you must remember That there is always more: we cannot rest in being The impatient spectators of malice or stupidity. We must try to penetrate the other private worlds Of make-believe and fear. To rest in our own suffering Is evasion of suffering. We must learn to suffer more.

the problem of gender identity is our evasion of the implications of power and our may-I-say-"feminine" inclinations to make nice. War is not nice.

No creen, queridos internautas, que el lenguaje de AMLO implica una evasión de su responsabilidad? Se cancelará el aeropuerto, en lugar de cancelaré el aeropuerto. Se encarcelará a la Mafia del Poder, en lugar de encarcelaré a la Mafia del Poder. Se hará esto, se amnistiará a otros, se acabará lo de más allá. Él se declara inocente a priori porque no personaliza sus decisiones.

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them, they accept it, even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

You can disappear here without knowing it.

Quick, someone's coming! Look real!

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

I forget nothing, Ms. Lane. I omit." "And evade." "Lie, cheat, and steal," he agreed. "If the shoe fits.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

Slowly it floats more and more away