Quotes About Avoidance

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

It is easy to find a logical and virtuous reason for not doing what you don't want to do.

Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.

Mind, I congratulate you. You jumped me to sex, translated it to aesthetics, and ended with sour grapes. How dishonest can I be? And all because I don't want to go to work. I'll work my head off to avoid work. Come, mind. This time you don't get away with it - back to the desk.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

The idea of love horrified me, and I knew I couldn't have it, so I didn't want it.

A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.

Postponement: The father of failure.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes

Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

That which one fears, one typically won't embrace with open arms.

Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

Since we have been primed to think of the subconscious as a closet of monsters to be avoided, we tend to fear it. Thus, we avoid the unconscious storage room where the creative solution is hidden.

Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle.

Turning your back on your problems doesn't solve them, it only delays them.

Taking your life is just an excuse to run away from your problems. Permanently.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself.

in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice: I preferred not to see them;