Fled Quotes
142 quotes by 124 authors
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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
— Sherman Alexie
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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,…
— Thomas Paine
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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and…
— Steven Pressfield
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Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or…
— Peter Cundall
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Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle…
— Ayn Rand
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Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution…
— Werner Herzog
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I could have sworn that they were originally Americans who maybe fled. Maybe they were illegal immigrants or something who got here, come here with…
— Rush Limbaugh
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It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the soul fled to…
— Sandra Ingerman
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A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root…
— Gautama Buddha
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One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
— Charles de Lint
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When my kids were in preschool, I was part of a carpooling group. One mother sometimes showed up with bruises on her body. She always…
— Patty Murray
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The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.
— Hafez
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Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master's cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee the crucified Christ…
— Jürgen Moltmann
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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.
— Mervyn Peake
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Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.
— Paul Theroux
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second…
— Alexander Pope
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My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.
— Emanuel Celler
Who Wrote These Fled Quotes
124 authors contributed a total of 142 Fled Quotes, led by these top contributors: