A kid ran into the darkness. His clothing was on fire; the…

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

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

“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

“The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east, and errandless, unheralded he homeward sped.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“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

“I fled Him down the nights and down the days I fled Him down the arches of the years I fled Him down the…

— Francis Thompson