Quotes About Avoidance

It was an interesting idea, I said, that the narrative impulse might spring from the desire to avoid guilt, rather than from the need – as was generally assumed – to connect things together in a meaningful way; that it was a strategy calculated, in other words, to disburden ourselves of responsibility.

Stay away from me so I don't feel anything for you anymore.

I thought if I quit looking around for you, I would forget you. I thought if I avoided you, I could get you out of my head. But it didn't work.

The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.

I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.

I haven't watched one second of 'First Take' since I walked off that set.

I'm not a big fan of anniversaries.

I don't dab, bro.

I don't do bugs.

If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

I bury things in the back of my mind I don't really want to deal with.

I think there are always times when people want to get out of reality, because sometimes it sucks and it's difficult.

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

Then, of course, the telephone's such a convenient thing; it just sits there and demands you call someone who doesn't want to be called.

Haven't you got anything humorous that stays away from waters and valleys and God? I'd like to keep away from the subject of religion altogether if we can." The chaplain was apologetic. I'm sorry, sir, but just about all the prayers I know are rather somber in tone and make at least some passing reference to God.

You have a morbid aversion to dying.

Azzal, hogy elfut a problémák elÅ'l, még nem oldja meg Å'ket.

Yossarian devia a sua boa saúde ao exercício, ao ar puro, ao trabalho de equipa e ao bom desportivismo, e fora para se esquivar a tudo isso que descobrira o hospital.

Do things disturb you? If you have no opinion there is no suffering. You have no opinion about the headlines in the newspaper today. Where there is no opinion there is no suffering. If the cucumber is bitter, don't eat it. If there are briars and brambles on the road you are traveling, avoid them.

So, what's first? Dexterity. I throw things at you. You avoid them. You're not a complicated person, are you? Let's do it. 20 seconds later You hib me wib a girder! How many claws am I holding up? You hib my face wib a whole girder! You were meant to duck. Can we skip degsteriby?

We never have time, do we, for all that we don't exactly want to do.

Della Rae was a pig and she was smashed out of her skull and you didn't want to think about it

Whatever you run from will always be waiting for you somewhere else.