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Quotes About Fleeing

Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious
~ Yann Martel
Ils partiront. Ils abandonneront tout. Ils fuiront. Rien n'aura su les retenir
~ Unknown
We turned and ran, leaving Zeus hanging.
~ Peter Lerangis
The guilty, he reflected as he drove amid the heavy late-afternoon traffic as carefully as possible, may flee when no one pursues—he
~ Philip K. Dick
I realize I've sometimes raced over the years like an ice skater fleeing the devil on a frozen river.
~ Unknown
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears. —"The Hound of Heaven" (FRANCIS THOMPSON, 1859–1907)
~ Colleen Coble
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
she wants to put a few hundred more miles between them and Ringrock as fast as she can
~ Dean Koontz
ashes of the dead slaves fleeing on the wind, back toward Africa.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Soon space became filled again, and dense, like a vineyard just before vintage time, and we flew on, escaping from one another, my galaxy fleeing the younger ones as it had the older, and young and old fleeing us.
~ Italo Calvino
If you are made for flight, intended for it, you had better find a pursuer, fast. Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.
~ Unknown
he wondered if, in his effort to get to safety, he wasn't fleeing from a wreck but causing it.
~ Louise Penny
He ran, I guess. Probably chased by a gang of music lovers.
~ Louise Penny
Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
What's the RLH protocol?" I asked. "It means run like hell
~ John Scalzi
But what we find is that flight becomes captivity: once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing.
~ Mark Buchanan
Then somebody took her from him, put her on a horse and pushed him onto another, and they were riding for their lives while behind them, all through the night, all Stronghold burned as a funeral pyre.
~ Melanie Rawn
I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction.
~ Melina Marchetta
It was not uncommon to see the letters G.T.T. painted or carved on the doorways of cabins in Tennessee and other parts of the country especially in the south. It was a sure sign that the occupants had picked up and were as they said "Gone to Texas". It was a popular expression for those people who had committed crimes or owed money or just did not want to be found.
~ Unknown
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~ Miguel de Unamuno
The two armies which but recently attacked you with audacity are fleeing before you in terror; the wicked men who laughed at your misery and rejoiced at the thought of the triumphs of your enemies are confounded and trembling.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Je n'étais vraiment moi–même qu'à l'instant où je m'enfuyais. Mes seuls bons souvenirs sont des souvenirs de fuite ou de fugue.
~ Patrick Modiano
No es mas que una persecución, y creo que compadezco a las mujeres castas que huyen y se pierden el final de la carrera
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Perplexed and distressed, he fled the palace under the cover of night, leaving behind his wife and child
~ Paul Gilbert