Fled Quotes

142 quotes by 124 authors

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
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
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
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
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 All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation.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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. — Charles de Lint
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
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
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… — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
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
Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered. — Mervyn Peake
Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled. — Paul Theroux
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
My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States. — Emanuel Celler

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