Quotes About Avoidance

Each of the women elaborately ignored the other.

Foreknowledge is a burden, a weight I can hardly bear. Maybe that's why God keeps the future hidden from us. If I knew I would have a terrible accident, would I live my life trying to avoid it? Would I lock myself inside a room being safe? Or would I go outside and live day to day

I lower my head so that you don't see my eyes, to deny you the joy of an exchanged glance,

Oh she's alright it's just that - I don't want to get mixed up with anyone in the house. I don't want to get mixed up at all with anybody anymore.

Feeling the pain is the first step toward healing the pain. The longer we avoid the feeling, the more we delay our healing. We can numb it, ignore it, or pretend it doesn't exist, but all those options lead to an eventual breakdown, not a breakthrough.

Do you know how much drama and heartbreak I could have avoided in my life if I would not have set into motion what needs to remain still? Every time this has happened in my life, I can draw a straight line to decisions I made from a hardened heart.

When we turn away from evidence that seems relatively straightforward to others we are using denial.

If you look over in that direction, like two hundred yards, you will see some birds walking. Never drive the boat toward where the birds are walking. First rule of navigation.

It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.

He's busy taking the fifth

Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald? Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don't want to do.

Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don't want to do. And if ever there was something I didn't want to do, this was surely it: to deal with the mother of a dead novelist and, worst of all, to have to read a manuscript that she said was great, and that, as it turned out, was a badly smeared, scarcely readable carbon.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

I was tops at the Scarlet O'Hara school of emotional distancing. I always thought about the uncomfortable stuff tomorrow, and, as everyone knows, tomorrow never comes.

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.