Quotes About Avoidance

Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.

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

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.

That which you cannot express is Love. That which you cannot reject/renounce is Beauty. That which you cannot avoid is the Truth.

Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."

Some people handle the truth carelessly Others never touch it at all.

In Sweden, self-sufficiency and autonomy is all; [interpersonal] debt of any kind, be it emotional, a favor, or cash, is to be avoided at all cost. The Swedes don't even like to owe a round of drinks.

He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like How sane are we? and Do our lives have meaning? The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them.

He did not fear death exactly, but he had evaded it for so many years that it had come to seem formidable simply by virtue of that long act of evasion. In particular he feared dying in some undignified way, on the jakes or with his face in the porridge.

Landsman has put a lot of work into the avoidance of having to understand concepts like that of the eruv, but he knows that it's a typical Jewish ritual dodge, a scam run on God, that controlling motherfucker.

Then I reminded myself that I was always willing to listen to arguments in favor of avoiding an unpleasant chore, and I shook my head.

I wasn't unkind to him. I just didn't talk to him. I didn't talk to anybody, and I didn't want anybody talking to me. That was the plan.

As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?" The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them.

mejor manera de no tener problemas es no darlos. —Eso es mentira y lo sabe. —No, no lo sé.

Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it. We don't want to read a book or see a museum show until we've read the reviews so that we know what to think. We lose the confidence to perceive ourselves. We want to know the meaning of an experience before we have it. We become frightened of direct experience, and we will go to elaborate lengths to avoid it.

When you avoid talking about one conspicuous thing in a family, soon you stop talking about any conspicuous things in the family. It's like a form of rot.

The method of his execution was unsurprising: Trump always avoided firing people himself. The man who played Mr. You're Fired on TV avoided personal confrontation in real life.

Meriwether spent his entire day avoiding dumb bets, and he wasn't about to accept this one.

When one fails to take action that could have avoided a disaster, one does not accept responsibility for the occurrence of the disaster.

Amos thought people paid an enormous price to avoid mild embarrassment," said his friend Avishai Margalit, "and he himself decided very early on it was not worth it.

All his life he has avoided permanent intimacy. Till this war he has been a better lover than husband. He has been a man who slips away, in the way lovers leave chaos, the way thieves leave reduced houses.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.