Quotes About Avoidance

I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?

Those small things, like giving a hug to man, I try to avoid it. Because I can see the situation is coming, and I try to prepare. But I remember the first time I did it, I was 16, and I was at the gymnasium, and it was a cosmopolitan thing, an international thing, a modern thing, but I never felt at ease with it at all.

I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.

We all have a variety of ways of avoiding our 'darkness' (wherein lies all our wounds/hurts/betrayals/ grief/loss etc.), ways of practicing a type of conscious forgetfulness in order to not to have to look at that place within us. However, there are times and occasions when we either choose to look into our 'pit' or we fall in, and we can become afraid, sad, or angry.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Let's not go there.' 'That's what people always say about places where they already are.

the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide...

Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are.

Dan dengan seorang laki-laki yang sekedar seorang penjahat, jika kau cepat, kau selalu bisa menghindari yang terburuk darinya. Ini cara pintar yang ingin kau lihat. Mereka punya cara-cara lebih buruk untuk menyakitimu, dan kau tidak selalu melihat mereka datang - Ehara

You never apologised to me for getting my legs broken, either. I said sorry in my own way, Gary. By never referring to it again and dodging the subject whenever I brought it up. Exactly.

You know, I've never really liked paying bills. I don't think I'm gonna do that, either.

People usually escape from their troubles into the future; they draw an imaginary line across the path of time, a line beyond which their current troubles cease to exist.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

The answer warmed the hearts of both the old men, but, with the usual avoidance of Englishmen of emotional subjects personal to themselves, they instinctively returned to the previous question.

Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction.

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

We avoid what we do not wish to see; we are deaf to what we do not wish to hear; we ignore what we do not wish to know. We are masters of self-deception, of manipulating our perceptions. —Bene Gesserit summation, Wallach IX archives

The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it).

Negative emotions often make things even more memorable than positive ones because recalling things that are threatening—and avoiding those situations in the future if possible—is often critical to survival.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

There's no such thing as writer's block, she proclaimed. If you can't write it's because you don't have anything to say. Or you're avoiding something.

We're much more efficient at carnage now. Try your very hardest not to participate.

The technological perils that science serves up, its implicit challenge to received wisdom, and its perceived difficulty, are all reasons for some people to mistrust and avoid it.