8,425 Quotes About Running

If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party,what are you running away from?

Recovery from complete and utter exhaustion facilitates individual creativity

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.

Exercise can so easily, so quickly, and so greatly change our mood that some people would not have killed themselves, if they had run to the place to which they went to kill themselves.

Running is flying 
intermittently

I doubted running would permanently heal my depression, but I craved the runner's rush. In the hours following a run, my arms and legs tingled. My chest and throat opened. The dark heaviness lifted, and my body felt light and warm like an afterglow.

The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.

I run for half an hour every day because I hate it. It never gets any easier. Each day I dread going outside or to the gym, and each day I try to talk myself out of it. But I always go. I hate running, and I’ve run each day since starting the show to prove that I am stronger than my apathy. That I am stronger than the girl who gave up on life.

As I searched for food perfection, and as I gained weight, I began to realize that the race for perfection in anything was the path to destruction.