The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the…

“Yet even as he spake the shadows of Mandos lay upon his face, and his spirit fled in that hour to the margin of…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

— Alek Wek

“Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound when all…

— Margaret George

“Survive long enough and you get to a far point in life where nothing else of particular interest is going to happen. After that,…

— Charles Frazier

I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.

— Mervyn Peake

“As a refugee who fled civil war as a child, I am still trying to figure out where I fit in - which is…

— Ilhan Omar

“A kid ran into the darkness. His clothing was on fire; the flames streamed behind him as he fled screaming.”

— Michael Grant

“Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.”

— Brian Francis Slattery

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw…

— Philip Yancey

“He ran toward the light. When he passed the corpse of his dead friend, he began to weep again. He picked up his sword.…

— M. John Harrison

I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.

— Alfonsina Storni

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the…

— Carlo Collodi