Quotes About Avoidance

We run away from one thing into the other and destroy ourselves in the process, he said. We just simply go away until we have given up, so he said. Preference

Anyone can bear a catastrophe, once it has occurred, by at least seeming to avoid it through keeping busy, no matter which work routine he forces himself into.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

But a resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.

Delay is preferable to error.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

The truth that many people never understand is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more your suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things start to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Nothing is more complex than avoiding the obvious

If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?

After all, if I started confiding my innermost problems to someone, I'd have to do something about them. And I'm not ready for that yet.

I tried to avoid looking at the dress full on, lest it burn out my retinas with its glittering hideousness.

Allen…I don't want to fight you. I miss you…and want to see you…but at the same time I don't. Please…at all costs, avoid us.

When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

If suffering is ubiquitous in life, the withdrawal from and avoidance of suffering is accordingly the withdrawal from and avoidance of life. You

A guilty man runs when no one's chasin' him.

time zig-zags like a running man avoiding bullets

Oh, Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Never say 'never,' my dear. It saves a great deal of embarrassing explanation later.

The character doesn't even come out until people are tested and be put in extreme situations and most people spend their lives trying to avoid those kinds of situations.