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Quotes About Flee

you wanted to sublimate a piece of natural human folly into a horror and then exorcise it with truth and i it was to isolate her out of the loud world so that it would have to flee us of necessity and then the sound of it would be as though it had never been
~ William Faulkner
He fled, not from his past, but to escape his future. It took him twelve years to learn you cannot escape either of them.
~ William Faulkner
Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.
~ Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Il faut pas se mentir : la seule chose qui oblige un mauvais garçon à se lever tôt, c'est le désir de fuir.
~ Henri Loevenbruck
A Narrow Escape
~ Henry Cole
For out of it all rose the vague, crude picture of woman as the prey of man. Man was animal, a composite of lust and cruelty, with no aim but that of brutally taking his pleasure: something monstrous, yet to be adored; annihilating, yet to be sought after; something to flee and, at the same time, to entice, with every art at one's disposal.
~ Henry Handel Richardson
a world of broken promises, a land to flee.
~ Paul Theroux
Well may I get aboard. [He sees a bear.] This is the chase: I am gone for ever! [Exist pursued by a bear.]
~ William Shakespeare
treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
~ William Shakespeare
How could they flee? How could they abandon Germany to evil men who were determined to destroy everything good about it?
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
We do not like to hear about punishment because it reminds us of the seriousness of sin. But we must hear about it if we are to wake up to the true horror of our sinfulness and flee to the remedy, namely, flee to Christ.
~ Unknown
Run while you still have the chance.
~ Chuck Norris
We turned and ran, leaving Zeus hanging.
~ Peter Lerangis
ABSQUATULATE To flee, abscond, or boogie. This facetious frontier slang combines the notion of speculating with squatting or camping. An example of America's "barbaric brilliancy
~ Phil Cousineau
Do androids dream? Rick asked himself. Evidently; that's why they occasionally kill their employers and flee here. A better life, without servitude. Like Luba Luft; singing Don Giovanni and Le Nozze instead of toiling across the face of a barren rock-strewn field. On a fundamentally uninhabitable colony world.
~ Philip K. Dick
Get out of here while you can. She's crazier than a syphilitic suicide bomber with mad-cow disease.
~ Dean Koontz
The days, the nights, flow one by one above us. The hours go silently over our lifted faces. We are like dreamers who walk beneath a sea. Beneath high walls we flow in the sun together. We sleep, we wake, we laugh, we pursue, we flee.
~ Conrad Aiken
But I, who am of lighter mood, Will laugh to flee away.' For who would trust the seeming sighs Of wife or paramour?
~ Lord Byron
O guarda il demonietto! come fugge!
~ Unknown
Silence reigned. Well, except for Mallory's thundering heartbeat. She was in an attic loft, flat beneath her Mr. Wrong. Her common sense was screaming flee! But her secret inner bad girl was screaming oh please can't we have him? Just once? -Mallory
~ Jill Shalvis
Cominci a scappare e sarai in fuga per sempre»
~ Joanne Harris
When the rabbit has escaped, comes advice.
~ Proverb
It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
~ Voltaire
Home is where the heart is, until we get a chance to bury it. Home is where the heart pulled the nails out of its feet, and fled.
~ Joey Comeau