Quotes About Avoidance

If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

With sadness specifically, in America you read about people medicating to avoid sadness. They don't want to experience sadness, and yet it's such a vital part of being human.

Normally, if I would read in a script that there's mostly flashbacks and mostly voiceover, I would run as far away as possible.

When you got on the private plane, you had your own private lounge where you could close the door. So there wasn't a lot of friendly conversation; we were in incubators by ourselves. That just bred a void - avoid each other, and avoid the issues.

If I feel somebody is getting volatile and taking things in other way, I better stay away from that person.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

I don't like shopping at all.

I am always running away from something.

I like banks because they keep my money safe, but I don't want to talk about banks 12 times a year.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I like to mind my business when it comes to other people's business, especially when it comes to beef.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

It is a charming thing to be loved by everybody, he told his grandchildren, and the way to obtain it is, never to quarrel or be angry with anybody. He hated arguing face-to-face, preferring to smooth out the rough edges of conversation, leading some people to believe Jefferson agreed with them when, in fact, he was seeking to avoid conflict

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain: and he is the best pilot who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which he is beset.

in our line of work the more humiliated a person is, the more viral the story tends to go. Shame can factor large in the life of a journalist—the personal avoidance of it and the professional bestowing of it onto others.

Aveva degli occhi azzurri penetranti e intelligenti che avrebbero certamente inchiodato i miei con la forza e la fissità del loro sguardo, se io non li avessi deliberatamente evitati, preferendo soffermarmi sulla carnagione leggermente screziata e sui suoi folti capelli ramati.

The odd truth about Alfred was that love, for him, was a matter not of approaching but of keeping away.

Plus. she'd already been downstairs for so long that it would be unpleasant to go up and beg Jason for further patience, and her life was already so fraught with unpleasantnesses that she'd adopted the strategy of delaying encounters with them as long as possible, even when the delay made it likely that they would be even more unpleasant when she did encounter them.

The only way to avoid despair was not to involve himself at all.

her life was already so fraught with unpleasantnesses that she'd adopted the strategy of delaying encounters with them as long as possible, even when the delay made it likely that they would be even more unpleasant when she did encounter them.

The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

I didn't want to hear about death. It was all anyone talked about, even when no one was actually talking about it.

Shy is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.