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Quotes About Fugitive

The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.
~ Brandon Mull
always fugitive, always near always concealed, always disdainful always leaving, always untouched always in black, always dreaming always the bitter flower always the night, always concealed always fugitive, always caged always your face always the bitter flower of your lips, always your bed always near, always fleeing always waiting, always waiting always calling to you always the night deepens always the night always fugitive, always near
~ Antonio Machado
You're such a fugitive, but you don't know what you're running from.
~ Arctic Monkeys
perhaps Dawood's status as a fugitive and an outlaw beyond the reach of the Indian legal system suits many back home in India. Empires built with his money would collapse and many skeletons would tumble out of the closet if he was ever brought back home. The powers that be would rather have Dawood Ibrahim stuck in Pakistan. And so the cult of Dawood will be perpetuated.
~ S. Hussain Zaidi
He is a fugitive, he who flees from the reason that governs our soicial life; a blind man, he who closes the eyes of his mind; a beggar, he who depends on another and does not possess within himself all that is necessary for life; an abscess on the body of the universe, he who sets himself apart and cuts himself off from the reason of our common nature because he is dissatisfied with what comes to pass; for this is brought about by the same order of nature that brought you too into being.
~ Marcus Aurelius
slave running from his master is a fugitive. Law is our master: the law-breaker is therefore a fugitive. But also in the same way pain, anger, or fear denote refusal of some past, present, or future order from the governor of all things – and this is law, which legislates his lot for each of us. To feel fear, then, pain or anger is to be a fugitive.
~ Marcus Aurelius
He therefore that forsakes the law, is a fugitive. So is he, whosoever he be, that is either sorry, angry, or afraid
~ Marcus Aurelius
A Plan to Eliminate the Female Emigrant Problem in the North-Eastern Seaboard Territories. It outlined the steps necessary for the trapping of fugitive Handmaids en route to Canada, and called for the declaration of a National Emergency, plus a doubling of tracker dogs and a more efficient system of interrogation.
~ Margaret Atwood
I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
~ Annie Dillard
For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.
~ Ronald Biggs
What is the part of wisdom? To dream with one eye open; to be detatched from the world without being hostile to it; to welcome fugitive beauties and pity fugitive sufferings, without forgetting for a moment how fugitive they are.
~ Santayana George
One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean, you have got to realize I've been on the run for more than 30 years. I have got to have had more than that.
~ Ronald Biggs
think that it is most probable that Beddoes, pushed to desperation and believing himself to have been already betrayed, had revenged himself upon Hudson, and had fled from the country with as much money as he could lay his hands on. Those are the facts of the case, Doctor, and if they are of any use to your
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale ... we must have formed a conception of equilibrium and be ever ready to change sides like justice, 'that fugitive from the camp of conquerors'.
~ Simone Weil
But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.
~ John Milton
Yet they also had loved life. They had loved it the more, John would tell her, because it was fugitive; they had loved it for the sake of the surprise, the danger, the brittleness of the moment.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Din tot ce-i fugar - ÅŸi nimic nu-i altfel - culege prin senzaÅ£ii esenÅ£e ÅŸi intensit??i. Unde s? cauÅ£i realul? N-ai unde. Doar în gama emoÅ£iilor. Ce nu se ridic? la ele e ca ÅŸi cum n-ar fi. Un univers neutru e mai absent decât unul fictiv.
~ Emil Cioran
The free discussion of daily matters, the delicate delineation of domestic detail, the passing narrative of fugitive occurrences, would seem light and transitory, if it were not broken by the interruption of a terrible earnestness, and relieved by the dark background of a deep and foreboding sadness.
~ bagehot walter xvii
Modernity is the transitory, fugitive, contingent, is but one half of art, of which the other half is the eternal and immutable.
~ baudelaire charles iv
ain't a-going to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for
~ Mark Twain
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive god. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.
~ Martin Heidegger
Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it. Times to move along now, nothing to see. Nothing to see there ever again.
~ Jonathan Stroud
The fugitive, brief, though intense satisfactions that come to the nerves through the appetite and passions are not the foundations of joy in this world: they come with a moment's flash, and are disastrous in their flight.
~ beecher henry ward xii