You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

Maybe we are running from something because we don’t want to find out what we are running from

Don’t let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter; the shade can turn out to be your protector and also your destroyer, and sometimes the rain is the perfect protector from the rain.

You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone...

Just a few more years and then we’ll join the circus.

Every day, when you’re on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that’s why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

…I didn’t run away to come home the same. -Claudia

Our art is made in cities like New York by people who are running from other places. They feel themselves as misfits who were trapped in dead-end suburbs. They hated high school. Their parents did...

After all, it’s one thing to run away when someone’s chasing you. It’s entirely another to be running all alone.

But before he could either comfort me or commit further acts of violence upon my person, I spun away from him and made my drama queen moment complete by running away.

Let’s!

Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, even the new bed felt tainted. It was an inner-spring monument to lies, a...

One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite insuperable obstacles to his running away from it.

Sometimes its hard to tell how fast the current’s moving until you’re headed over a waterfall

I’m learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.

Running, you should know, is a kind of stillness.

As one of the little streams starts snaking my way, inching closer to the toe of my shoe, I hop over the spreading puddle and out of its reach. I don’t look back to see...

Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.

Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward?

He’s close enough now that I can hear his footfall on the pavement, and I knowmy chances of outrunning him are slim. I’m practically in a full sprint, and my pounding heart is begging me...

But that was all bravado. Already – how had it come about so quickly – desire had begotten need. A few whispered words (perhaps he didn’t mean them) and I was ready to follow. It...

I’m homeless. I’ve taken to the belief that home is not where we lay our heads comfortably some nights, or where we entertain visiting friends. It’s not where love is unconditional. When I look up...

I thoughtyou were some kind of psychopath.” My frown deepens, as I consider whether he might in fact be a psychopath.

I took to the Kingswood the midsummer after the Dame died. I did not swear a vow, but I kept to myself just as strictly, living like a beast in the forest from one midsummer...

Every time the song looped, all I heard was the part about the lies – and how they weigh you down. Tonight, as I drive toward Detroit in my Jeep, I know what those words...

I do know this. It’s the things we run from that hurt us the most.” –Brad Sturdevant

There aren’t any rules to running away from your problems. No checklist of things to cross off. No instructions. Eeny, meeny, pick a path and go. That’s how my dad does it anyway because apparently...

Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that’s how we’ll know life is finally finished.

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

We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security

The only thing that keeps me going, is the desire to get away as far as possible.

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing...

Just run away from your problems if you want cause sometimes we need a time to think and cool down a bit before making a decision.

You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward.

My dear sister, you can’t escape God, and you can’t escape your skeletons in the closet. They will always be there until you take them out from behind those dusty old moth-eaten coats. Your exterior...

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he...

Sometimes I wish I was in the movies…Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody’d know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I’d...

Angel Band” by Johnny Cash and sat down at the bar,ordered a soda, you wanted a whiskey on the rocks.We saw the coal miner who moved here from West Virginiaknocking back liquor like I drink...