Quotes About Avoidance

I used to avoid people when I was afraid I loved them too much.

There are two kinds of people: those who can't perform the act when they're sad and those who perform it only to escape sadness.

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.

In my own personal time, horror films freak me out too much, so I tend to steer clear of watching horror films on my own.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

It is easier to stay out than to get out.

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

When a prisoner of style escapes, it's called an evasion.

I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way;

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

This wasn't necessary. It could have been avoided. We didn't need to go through all this.

which is another story, another place I'm here to avoid, as I'm certain there are places you too have sought to avoid.

Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?

When I found it amongst the book thief's words, I realised that we passed each other once in a while during that period, though neither of us scheduled a meeting. Personally, I had a lot of work to do. As for Hans, I think he was doing his best to avoid me.

They were all so nice and it was just excruciating. I was never taking off the helmet again. I can't do even the half-assed version of this stupid job if I have to talk to humans.

Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a full-time job looking the other way.

We kept nearly bumping into each other, unavoidably. I wished we could stop avoiding each other long enough to agree to avoid each other properly.

That left denial. If he pretended that he didn't have it, he could ignore the ways it was affecting his life. Denial sounded good.

Therefore, while social phobics and patients with AvPD both avoid out of fear, the social phobic's fears mainly arise in the clinical context of feeling, or actually being called upon to perform in ways ranging from giving a speech to urinating in a public washroom. In contrast the avoidant's fears generally arise in the context of interpersonal relationships, the main marker I look for in making the diagnosis of AvPD.