Avoidance Quotes

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Let's meet as little as we can

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.

One way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and to be a nobody. The world will then not bother you.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

Never run away from anything. Never!

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.