Quotes About Avoidance

When I should have felt real pain, I stifled it. I didn't want to take it on, so I avoided facing up to it. Which is why my heart is so empty now.

And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING. Make sure you keep away from me then.' I'd like to, but how can I tell?' I asked. O.K., I'll wear a hat for a couple of days after my period starts. A red one. That should work,' she said with a laugh. 'If you see me on the street and I'm wearing a red hat, don't talk to me, just run away.

Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shock him enough

If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.

Truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths

Sometimes we avoid checking in on our progress because we don't want to acknowledge how little progress we've made.

In my own work, I have written about how our public sector bank officials avoid making any new lending decisions - because lending always exposes them to some (infinitesimal) risk of being blamed for the loan going wrong.

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay.

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

Sometimes getting an idea of the trajectory we're on can be helpful and knowing where to go and what to avoid.

However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.

Honestly, when someone speaks to me about Juventus I try to change the subject immediately. I'm ashamed of the transfer!

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

Anxiety doesn't have a memory, remember? So believing she was going to learn from that mistake was just me falling into the trap of avoidance as well. She regretfully stayed home, and the safety she felt was stronger than her regret. The Worry Monster just flexed his muscle that much more.

It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

The purpose of reflecting on death is to make a real change in the depths of your heart, and to come to learn how to avoid the "hole in the sidewalk," and how to "walk down another street.

If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots.

If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.

He had no taste for his own company and avoided such an encounter as much as possible, for the last thing he wanted was to make close acquaintance with himself.

That's it. Evasion is key.

There's no reason for any of us to face reality if we don't like it.

Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.