Quotes About Avoidance

I had always thought it was her way of blinding herself to the messiness of the way we lived. Now I realised it was easier for her mind to go out through the air far above the clouds then to acknowledge the ugliness right before her eyes.

Maybe superficial is exactly what I want right now. If you don't talk about anything that matters, no one can say anything that'll hurt you--and you don't have to talk about the things that are eating away at you from the inside.

I can't say I'm unhappy about it,' added the bard, 'I get along well enough with mice, and I've always been found of birds, but when you put the two together I'd just as soon avoid them.

He began to prefer talking on the phone to actually getting together with someone, preferred the bodilessness of it, and started to turn down social engagements. He didn't want to actually sit across from someone in a restaurant, look at their face, and eat food. He wanted to turn away, not deal with the face, have the waitress bring them two tin cans and some string so they could just converse, in a faceless dialogue.

foolish,' even though I didn't want to touch

Avoid conflict and trouble, for enough of it fetches to a man without his asking.

who might have ventured into the Strip were usually warned in time and rode away to more tolerant

He didn't enjoy responsibility and never learned to cope with it.

It's coming to seem the only way to avoid hurting other people, which in his experience is what gives them power over you.

Information about toxicity in food is widely available, but people don't want to hear it.

Remember, one lives only once; if it is neglected, if you do not come to suffer, if you avoid it—it is eternally irreparable

We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy, fulfilling one desire after the next, banishing our fears, grasping at pleasure, recoiling from pain—and thinking, interminably, about how best to keep the whole works up and running

I broke up with her to avoid getting into a serious relationship with her, and now it

If their forces are substantial, prepare for them; if their forces are strong, avoid them.

Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.

My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!

However good-hearted one is, you understand, one eventually stops seeing people who depress you, so in the end Old Dantes was all alone.

Truth felt light and green, but a lie sunk to the floor, heavy as metal, a substance she always avoided for it made her feel as though she was trapped behind bars.

If you do not face something, it will follow you anyway.

Don't make me sit through reality.

Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them.

They've become sleepwalkers, wandering through their own nightmares, each avoiding the others for fear that a word, a conversation, a kiss will make them realize they aren't dreaming.