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Fleeing Quotes

Pierre Corneille quote: "Flee an enemy who knows your weakness."
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness. Pierre Corneille
Rumi quote: "And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how..."
And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security? Rumi
With man it is different. When he comes many of the larger animals instinctively leave the district entirely, seldom if ever to return; and thus it has always been with the great anthropoids. They flee man as man flees a pestilence. Edgar Rice Burroughs
Arthur Golden quote: "I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery,..."
I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us. Arthur Golden
And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself. Fernando Pessoa
Ovid quote: "I flee who chases me and chase who flees me."
I flee who chases me and chase who flees me. Ovid
John Gay quote: "Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee."
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. John Gay
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us."
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh. Robert Orben
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. Pietro Aretino
Horace quote: "As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing..."
As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow. Horace
The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be remembered that Brinktown occupies the surface of a volcanic butte, overlooking a trackless jungle of quagmire, thorn, eel-vine skiver tussock. A single road leads from city down to jungle; the prisoner is merely locked out of the city. Escape is at his option; he may flee as far through the jungle as he sees fit: the entire continent is at his disposal. But no prisoner ever ventures far from... Jack Vance
Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your statethat makes people want to flee the Earth?"- Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones,"The Colbert Report," November 3, 2005 Stephen Colbert
Andre Maurois quote: "One might have said that reason made him flee from reason."
One might have said that reason made him flee from reason. Andre Maurois
Are you surprised, as if it were a novelty, that after such long travel and so many changes of scene you have not been able to shake off the gloom and heaviness of your mind? You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate. [...] Do you ask why such flight does not help you? It is because you flee along with yourself. You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place will satisfy you. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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