Running Away From Problems Quotes

“She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“I run until time stops. Until my mind stops.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Every time the song looped, all I heard was the part about the lies - and how they weigh you down. Tonight, as I drive toward Detroit in my Jeep, I know what those words really mean. It's not just the lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from - it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“-Wherever you go, there you are! You can’t run away from yourself, or the underlying situation, no matter where you go. You won’t find happiness anywhere, unless it’s already there in your heart, and therefore you have carried it with you.”
― Andrew James Pritchard, Sukiyaki

“You cannot run away from the truth because truth will find you.”
― ColoZeus Benz

“Running is the easiest solution to every problem. The capability of choosing this option on the basis of problem defines your personality.”
― David Barik

“To protect yourself from others hurting you, you locked everyone out but at the same time you locked yourself in. All you now have is yourself for company but you never took the time to quieten all those negative voices in your head. You spent so long running away from you, escaping with different vices over the years that now you have locked yourself in those voices end up hurting you worse than anyone else ever could. Don't lock the doors, that could lead you to freedom”
― Sope Agbelusi

“Suddenly, I wish I had another thirty minutes of running in me. I wish I could keep running forever. Away from here.
I can't. And I can't leave my mother.
I turn the music down and head for home.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Call It What You Want

“We were terrified to stop, stop anything, and admit that something was wrong. Activity, frenzied activity, seemed to be the thing we all felt we needed. Only Dad slowed down, and that wasn’t until he was trapped in a hospital getting intravenous antibiotics. Everything would be all right, everything would be possible, anything could be salvaged or averted, as long as we all kept running around.”
― Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

“A lot of people think moving will solve their problems, when what they're really doing is running away.”
― Roxanne Snopek, The Chocolate Cure

“But I knew better: No matter where you go, the past floods back. You can try like the dickens, but you can't escape fate.”
― Michael Lee West, American Pie

“And where are you going?"
"I dunno," said the Spangled Boy. "I'm running from, not to."

Book: Wet Magic, Chapter 5.”
― E. Nesbit, Wet Magic

“Kevin knew he had to always outrun the enemy inside him, and if that meant playing football, he'd do it. During puberty, he had taken off running and found too late that he couldn't stop. In dreams that turned into nightmares he ran in fear, ripped from sleep in a sweat, shouting,"Run!”
― Brenda Sutton Rose

“The worst person to get away from is oneself.”
― Donna Goddard, Circles of Separation

“We feel that we can hide or run from problems, but we fail to understand that it isn't the problem we hide or run from, but our capacity to handle that problem. Problems regularly attack due to our vulnerability to the problem; we often look at situation giving us the stress & consider stress as the problem, but stress isn't the problem, it's our feeling or understanding of that situation which causes the stress.

We move away, try meditation, take medication & indulge in activities which rejuvenate the brain. hence, the stress goes away. We continue with our lives and after a while the merry feeling goes away too, and we start getting stressed again.

Problems are most vulnerable when it’s in the seed stage, but we water them with our ignorance or lack of attention and one day they become bigger than our expectation & imagination. We can still fight it, but we underestimate our capabilities & keep running away, that process gives it more nutrition to grow even bigger, and since we run away without solving them, they keep following us in new disguises; finally, one day we run out of places to run to and are left with stress, depression, and anxiety.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“I'd been so focused on running away, I'd almost missed what I was running to.”
― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here

“You can't outrun something you carry inside you. Don't waste your time trying.”
― Crystal Smith, Greythorne

“He had spent his life running, secrets spitting at his back. With the coach clocking him, Kevin took flight, his feet hitting the ground and pulling back with tremendous speed. Demons--visions of the eager hands of pretty boys with firm bodies--chased him, chipping away at the space separating them, their claws a whisper away from his flesh. He ran until he felt his lungs would give out; like a madman he ran.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose, Dogwood Blues

“If he could do one thing, he could run. He had spent his life running, secrets spitting at his back.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose, Dogwood Blues

“Home never has enough distractions, only walls and mirrors.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within

“… running away doesn’t heal pain. It makes the pain worse.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice / The Librarian of Auschwitz / The Child of Auschwitz

“This is something I've learned. You can't run away to find yourself. Yourself is there no matter where you go. The difference is, if you're running, you'll be too busy to pick up the sword and face your enemies. Sometimes your enemy will be you; sometimes it will be those with the power to hurt you. Take off your shoes and stop running. Live barefoot and fucking fight. I ran from my feelings-the ones I felt for Kit, the guilt of feeling them. I thought that if I put enough distance between us, my feelings would go away. I should have faced myself back then.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love

“I could still turn back before I pass the last houses and really have to commit to this.”
― Claire Wong, The Runaway

“I had a fast thought of I am just going to be posted here spread eagle for some poor person to find me. Surely, after, I am roadkill; yes, I felt as if I was going to be his canvas for his twisted artwork! I was running for my life barefoot. I could feel the stones cut me up as I was trying to outrun his car over and over, he was teasing me by speeding up and slowing down for miles, it was a sick game to him! Just flat-out terrifying to me! I even tried running into a wheat field, and he chased me with his car until I was trapped, and I got pinned up against a barbwire fence and he then floored it, and the wires ripped into my back and my butt, and legs.

Oh, how it was a wonder I was not cut completely in half, or decapitated! I do not know why he stopped, he could have killed me then and there, no he wanted me to feel more pain. Oh, what he called his love! I ran! I dashed! I jogged! I sprinted until I could not run anymore and he was behind the wheel laughing his head off at me falling tripping to the concrete, and gravel, and then I had to get back up and run some more. He would run that reddish-orange Dodge Challenger with the black racing stripes; bumper right up on me until it touched my nude petite butt, as I was running, and I know there was nowhere to run but forwards down the road, all day until late evening and the nightfall. Besides, after I collapsed from exhaustion, he would scoop me up and throw me back into the car, and get his way once more, and I would be too tired to fight him off me.”
― Marcel Ray Duriez, Nevaeh Struggle with Affections

“Troy, you cannot run away from problems. Otherwise, you will spend your entire life running and miss out on living. You are a survivor. Now you have to live.”
― J.U. Scribe, Roman Identity

“Some part of me knew I was crazy, walking away from what I wanted. But the rest of me knew it was a survival tactic. I couldn't take one more punch to the heart.”
― Lisa Brown Roberts

“People are very fond of saying that you should never run away from your problems. Yet if your problem were a man-eating tiger, perhaps running away is exactly what you should do.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“The distress of seeing my problems immediately solved corroded me. As long as we live like this, we are never free. We are tied to our weaknesses, always wanting to know what will come next, what others are thinking, what we should do. This is a habit to which we should not bow. We have to live in the present. I understood this very well during those many days in the Closed Forest, where I wavered between the desire to simply give up and the urge to continue, hoping to see the day when the evil that had befallen me was finally over. I reached a point where I was not running from the fields anymore, but from myself. In the end, I discovered that no matter where I was, I would have to face myself.”
― S. Zuppardi, The Black Shila

“Most of my life, I've been running. but no, I've never been cough.”
― Abigail Bostic