43 Quotes About Withdrawal

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

It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest.

Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running ‘from’ something. Fear harnessed compels us to run ‘to’ something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles.

Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.

I've had so much of you in such little time that I shouldn't be suffering from withdrawal!

I feel like an addict. Like if you leave, I'll go into withdrawal.

If I refused to let the streckwolves have the humans, knowing they were more likely to succeed than I, then I was no better than a Greatwolf. And if I had to choose between being like Milsindra or like the little not-wolves, I would rather be a streckwolf.

When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness.

Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure, for expensive isolation.