Quotes About Avoidance

If they cannot deny it, they will probably ignore it.

He has spoiled my night's reading, and that's reason enough, if there were no other, why I should steer clear of him in the future.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Thinking made her throat ache. That was a good reason not to think about seeing a psychiatrist.

You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving. It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.

I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

I felt absolutely nothing. It was like a door quickly opened, showing me what horrible feelings I had inside, and then slammed shut again so I wouldn't have to actually face them.

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A.

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom, and its typical cowardice is to bathe in its own glow and avoid, as much as possible, looking out beyond its boundary.

p. 62 ...meditation… exposes a contradiction between the sort of person we wish to be and the kind of person we are. Restlessness and lethargy are ways of evading the discomfort of this contradiction.

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

I don't want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can't think again. Not ever again.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes.

I wish I could report that it's getting better, but unfortunately it isn't. It's hard, too, because we've started school again, and I can't go to the places where I used to go. And it can't be like it was. And I wasn't ready to say good-bye just yet. To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

Es que a veces la gente utiliza el pensamiento para no implicarse en la vida.

And because I don't want to start thinking again

Parfois, on se réfugie derrière ses pensées pour ne pas avoir à s'impliquer.

Whenever peace—conceived as the avoidance of war—has been the primary objective Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the international system has been at the mercy of its most ruthless member. —Henry Kissinger

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

And he, despite the gallons of free whisky on offer, was wishing himself violently elsewhere.

FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.

That above all else. They did not look out their windows. No matter what noises or dreadful possibilities, no matter how awful the unknown, there was an even worse thing: to look the Gorgon in the face.

The first rule of self control is never to put yourself in a position where you have to practice self control