Quotes About Avoidance

I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

I've broken my hand, I threw my back out once, and then I've had some pretty bad cuts, but that's been about it. I've been able to avoid most of the really, really bad injuries and career-ending injuries.

I don't use supari at all, as that gets stuck in your throat.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

We don't want to give up free throws. Those are mistakes.

I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can't because I'm claustrophobic.

I use humour to hide behind, because I cannot bear to feel my feelings, cannot face the truth.

The dysphorias - the bitter fruits of the narcissist's impossible demands of himself - are painful. Gradually the narcissist learns to avoid them by eschewing a structured narrative altogether… The narcissist pays a heavy price for accommodating his dysfunctional narratives: emptiness; existential aloneness .. meaninglessness. This fuels his envy and the resulting rage.

In the coming era, in short, the avoidance of major intercivilizational wars requires core states to refrain from intervening in conflicts in other civilizations. This is a truth which some states, particularly the United States, will undoubtedly find difficult to accept.

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

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

Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.

Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

Goodness and happiness were gone for ever and nothing could be retrieved. This was going to end; and end terribly. The last three years had been spent trying to dodge their fate, but it was rushing up to meet them.

Our suffering does not make us weak; only our avoidance of suffering makes us weak. And that avoidance—the avoidance of legitimate suffering—is unfortunately bolstered by the cultural attitudes of a society obsessed with cheap and easy happiness.

It's like avoidance behavior in therapy—wanting to share the gossip but not wanting to deal with the real, more painful issues. Of course we want to avoid the pain. But by doing so, we inevitably cause more of it.

He had a way of anticipating memories he particularly didn't want to have.

Ik was er heilig van overtuigd dat ze niet zou bellen. Tenslotte was ik een hinderlijke getuige van een verleden dat ze koste wat kost wilde uitwissen; anders zou ze nooit zo hebben gehandeld als ze de hele avond gedaan had, door me op die manier te ontwijken.

Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.

Some stories you should run from while you still have legs.