Flee Quotes
235 Flee quotes by 204 unique authors
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Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.
— Chip Heath
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When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that…
— Gilles Deleuze
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O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose, My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill, Fair is Thy pavilion, where I hold…
— Amy Carmichael
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it’s true this world our breathing laboured inspires nothing more than obvious disgust a desire to flee without our share and no longer read the…
— Michel Houellebecq
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I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.
— Suzanne Collins
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Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I…
— Steven Erikson
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For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without…
— Juliet Marillier
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Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman…
— Stephen Colbert
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My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to…
— Unknown Author
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The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to…
— Sebastian Junger
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Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The wicked flee when none pursueth.
— Charles Portis
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To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Karkaroff intends to flee if the Mark burns." "Does he?" said Dumbledore softly, as Fleur Delacour and Roger Davies came giggling in from the grounds.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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A battle cry" Mr. Bennet said "is a warrior's calling card. Only it does not say 'Good afternoon. I have come for tea and crumpets.'…
— Steve Hockensmith
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I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
— Mark Twain
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That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee…
— Nora Roberts
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I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
— Arthur Golden
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The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most…
— Dave Barry
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Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine,…
— Ellen Hopkins
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And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all…
— Fernando Pessoa
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I can resist you or flee from you or try my hardest not to respond to you, but it makes no difference. You fall in…
— Lauren Kate
Who Wrote These Flee Quotes
204 authors contributed a total of 235 Flee Quotes, led by these top contributors: