35 Quotes About Fleeing

En des temps comme ceux-ci, la fuite est le seul moyen pour se maintenir vifs et continuer à rêver.

We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security

I reminded him of the poverty and hardships he must encounter among strangers. I told him he might be caught and brought back; and that was terrible to think of. He grew vexed, and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery. "Linda," he continued, "we are dogs here; foot-balls, cattle, every thing that's mean. No, I will not stay. Let them bring me back. We don't die but once.

Running away from uncertainty and confusion but most of all running away from myself. I thought I might become someone else in time, grafted on to something better and stronger. And then I saw that the running away was a running towards. An effort to catch up with my fleet-footed self, living another life in a different way.

We’re either ‘running from’ something or ‘running to’ something. And I think that true freedom is ‘resting in’ something.

Running from God creates the illusion that I’m actually creating space between myself and that from which I’m running. And I’m not certain that I want to run with that illusion.

Any place that I ‘run to’ most often turns into a place that I have to ‘run from’, unless of course that place is God.

Darkness is the absence of light. Therefore, darkness is always fleeing from where light is and scurrying off to where it is not. So why am I running from something that’s always running from something?

Truth is the thing that lies spend their lives running from.