Quotes About Avoidance

The Consul looked at the sun. But he had lost the sun: it was not his sun. Like the truth, it was well-nigh impossible to face; he did not want to go anywhere near it, least of all, sit in its light, facing it.

Eschew evil and it's machinations.

Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life.

He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit.

Amos believed that people go way out of their way to avoid minor embarrassments and he decided very early on in his life that it was not worth it.

People pay an enormous price to avoid mild embarrassment

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.

One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

So far, she'd been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris

Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.

How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them.

I looked at my watch. 2:30. I really should go back to sleep soon or I'd be a basket case at school tomorrow, I thought, but I was avoiding nightmares of my own. I had them pretty often, more often than Courtenay did. I knew they weren't real, I knew they wouldn't hurt me, but they still scared me to death.

Like some dogs, you don't want to catch his eye.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

They will very probably, by remembring past mistakes, avoid many inconveniencies into which forgetfulness will run you lively ones.

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

I've written whole books in order to avoid writing other books.

You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.

Don't bring up McKinley. Don't bring up McKinley.

I always suspected of him that he had in some fashion discovered that there were ways in which to be human was unutterably dismal, and that all his life was given over to avoiding those ways.

Une possibilité trop longtemps éludée devient une impossibilité.