35 Quotes About Fleeing

Fleeing is part of the struggle.

Denial is the escape that never allows us to escape.

Whenever I’ve ‘jumped ship,’ I rarely ever land in the water. Rather, I tend to land on another ship that’s in just about as much trouble as the one I just jumped off of.

We are all on a journey. But if it’s not the journey to which we were called, we’ve confused a journey with a panicked retreat.

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found.

If I’m chasing the wrong thing, what I’m chasing will end up chasing me. And in the end, I’m less likely to be the one doing the catching.

The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.

We can certainly run from a lot of things. But when we eventually pull up exhausted and entirely out of breath, we are rather shocked to discover that we haven’t been able to create any distance between ourselves and what we’ve been running from regardless of how fast we might have been running and how far we think we might have gotten.