Quotes About Running

He ran until he didn't know where he was, except that it was waste lot midnight. The Kefahuchi Tract almost filled the sky, always growing as you watched, like the genie raging up out of the bottle, yet somehow never larger. It was a singularity without an event horizon, they said, the wrong physics loose in the universe. Anything could come out of there, but nothing ever did. Unless of course, Ed thought, what we have out here is already a result of what happens in there...

As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.

All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying

I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.

To escape him she had run away to the end of the world. To be free of him she had run away to places where he never went.

What you said the other day about the futility of running away was very profound; and very courageous. Listen, Henry, I believe you should talk with Jung. I

Acting almost on a species memory, he runs forward, the glove before him.

Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only one that can ever get you home.

A thump thump thump noise that was so unfamiliar, and yet I couldn't quite place it. But I knew it. It was---Mmm-hmmm, Monica murmured, just as Wes came view into the path. He was running, his pace quick and steady. He was in shorts, his shirt off, staring ahead as he passed. His back was tan and gleaming with sweat. God god! she said finally, fanning her face with her hand, I've seen it a million times but it just never gets old. Never.

And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. It was my mother.

I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on that dark road, going home, I was.

Because that it what happens when you try to run from the past. It doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only way that can ever get you home.

Run, Bruce! Run from the truth! Run like you always have…but when you feel that prickling on the back of your neck, know that I'm coming for you! Reaching you from the other side of your reflection!

They'll be fine, Wickersham said. Practice makes perfect. I had to ask. You practice running away? We knew we'd make enemies. Other organizations have fire drills; we have oh-shit-someone-found-our-ass drills.

Heidi came running in, "Grandfather can the sun still laugh at me? she asked

I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life.

If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.

I am like the lover of Roland Barthes "who's always running in his head". I'm always searching, and "eating" everything from my life, in order to put it in my dresses!

You spend your life dreaming, running 'round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.

1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get older, resonate more.

When I'm really stressed emotionally, I say to myself that there's only so much I can do to change things. Life happens on life's terms. Then, I go for a run.

If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

Young Lady of Hull, Who was chased by a