flees QUOTES

1 " She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood that someone who flees into honesty like that fears something, fears that her life will fill with something that can no longer be shared, a genuine secret, indescribable, unutterable. "

― Sándor Márai , Embers

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

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline & Critical Writings

3 " We have to respect freedom only when it is intended for freedom, not when it strays, flees itself, and resigns itself. A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison. "

― Simone de Beauvoir , The Ethics of Ambiguity

4 " Beauty doesn't die with the beholder; it moves on. Hiding in the shadows, afraid of the light, she flees to find another host, possessing the body like a demon in need of exorcising. "

― Jennifer Melzer , Beauty and Other Dangerous Things

5 " She said that each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, words, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches. For a moment we are dazzled by an intense emotion. A pleasant warmth grows within us, fading slowly as time goes by, until a new explosion comes along to revive it. Each person has to discover what will set off those explosions in order to live, since the combustion that occurs when one of them is ignited is what nourishes the soul. That fire, in short, is its food. If one doesn't find out in time what will set off those explosions, the box of matches dampens, and not a single match will ever be lighted.
If that happens, the soul flees from the body and goes to wander among the deepest shades, trying in vain to find food to nourish itself, unaware that only the body it left behind, cold, and defenseless, is capable of providing that food.
That's why it's important to keep your distance from people who have frigid breath. Just their presence can put out the most intense fire, with results we're familiar with. If we stay a good distance away from those people, it's easier to protect ourselves from being extinguished. "

― Laura Esquivel

6 " Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the body, flees away like a prisoner whose guard has fallen asleep, leaving the keys at the prison gate. "

― Gérard de Nerval , Selected Writings

7 " The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices. "

― Martin Luther

8 " No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor. "

― , Sold on Language

9 " Pride flees when we compare ourselves to God instead of [to] other people. "

― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes

10 " When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold. "

― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes

11 " Anger flees when the Spirit’s fruit fills our hearts. "

― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes

12 " You can grieve for me the week before I die, if I’m scared and hurting, but when I gasp that last fleeting breath and my immortal soul flees to heaven, I’m going to be jumping over fire hydrants down the golden streets, and my biggest concern, if I have any, will be my wife back here grieving. When I die, I will be identified with Christ’s exaltation. But right now, I’m identified with His affliction. "

― R.C. Sproul , A Taste of Heaven: Worship in the Light of Eternity

13 " The civilizations barter in coldness; they peddles it, reinforces it, market it, entices with it, reward it, and then flees from it when it's unchecked force is too much to marvel at. Soon absolute zero will be on sale, and people will warm up to that notion as well. "

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14 " She’s exactly the kind of woman I’m drawn to. A woman who flees when hunted and comes alive when she’s caught. "

― Pam Godwin, Dark Notes

15 " Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms. "

― Joyce Carol Oates

16 " He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. "

17 " Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun. "