65 Avoidance Quotes

Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

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.

If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.

If we say that no one's out there And we say we're goin' nowhere And we avoid the question Is this all that it means?

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.

They stayed away in droves.

Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don't there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time - but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

If you try to look But you don't touch Then you won't touch But you'll never feel And if you don't feel You'll never cry And if you don't cry Then you'll never heal

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Next week I'm going to have an MRI to find out if I have claustrophobia.

'Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.' Autumn 1989 ('Vergessen wir die

I hate the man in the mirror/Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer

Half a man's life is spent in implying, in turning away, and in keeping silent.

Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the window.

Interviewer: If you were a Magic-8-Ball what would you say? Davey: Im good with non-commitals, That's all relative, Depends on the circumstance, Im sorry I'm sleepy, Not now... I haven't put my face on.

I'm trying to figure out what else I can say that you - I didn't say yesterday that sounds profound to you without - without actually answering your question.

The difficulties he foresaw were so formidable that he quickly banished the disagreeable subject from his mind.

Fay: You've been a widower for three days. Have you considered a second marriage yet? McLeavy: No. Fay: Why not? McLeavy: I've been so busy with the funeral.

I remember about 1660 there was a great difference between him and Sir Hierome Sanchy, one of Oliver's knights:The Knight had been a Soldier, and challenged Sir William to fight with him. Sir William is extremely short sighted, and being the challengee it belonged to him to nominate place and weapon. He nominates, for the place, a darke Cellar, and the weapon to be a great Carpenter's Axe. This turned the knight's challenge into Ridicule, and so it came to nought.

You're a coward, James. You're running away from humanity. You're running away from reality. It won't be funny when they rat-a-tat-tat you down.

Leave the stronger and the lesser things to me! Lest that conger named Vanessa who is longer than a dresser visits thee.

I did a movie with Peter Frampton. He's a musical genius, but I don't listen to his stuff. So I had to continuously try to draw attention away from the fact. Hey Frampton! Do you like toast too!? As do I. It is warm and crispy and the perfect place for jelly to lay. Now stay away from me Frampton, I ain't got shit else to say to you!

Why did I come? I didn't come. I went. I wasn't coming here, to meet these people. I was leaving there. Getting away. Only I tricked myself.

I hate it when you back away from a quarrel like that. I don't like conflict. But you always back off at the exact moment when you're about to tell the other person exactly what she needs to hear.

That's right, hide from me, that's mature of you. Don't face up to anything. Isn't that what your life in this house is all about? Hiding!

Ansset watched, keeping his promise but wishing with all his heart that somewhere in his mind there was a wall he could hide behind. Unfortunately, he was too sane.

Fuyez un ennemi qui sait votre defaut.

Do you ever think? The voice, God forbid.

To stop leaving tracks is easy. Not to walk upon the ground is hard.

procrastination is the art of keeping<up with yesterday

I hoped for your company. For many conversations' she thought about it, but in the end she shook her head. 'It would be too:hard for me. This is too hard for me. Seeing you brings back another life. A time when I was another person maybe now and then. Every few years

With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!

The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

And I'm trying to be assertive, I'm making plans Gonna rise to the occasion and meet all their demands But all I do is lay in bed And hide under the covers.

What use is it to slumber here: Though the heart be sad and weary? What use is it to slumber here Though the day rise dark and dreary?

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Sometimes the little boy who calls me father brings me an invitation from his mother: 'I shall be so pleased if you will come and see me,' and I always reply in some such words as these: 'Dear madam, I decline.' And if David asks why I decline, I explain that it is because I have no desire to meet the woman. 'Come this time, father,' he urged lately, 'for it is her birthday, and she is twenty-six,' which is so great an age to David, that I think he fears she cannot last much longer.

Clyde: Oh, we're not going to make that trip again, oh no.

A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain. (2004)

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

Lenny Bruce, declares a truce and plays his other hand. Marshall McLuhan, casual viewin', head buried in the sand.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

The only victory over love is flight.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

Contenting myself, accordingly, with a gesture of loving sympathy, I left the room. Whether she did or did not throw a handsomely bound volume of the Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, at me, I am not in a position to say. I had seen it lying on the table beside her, and as I closed the door I remember receiving the impression that some blunt instrument had crashed against the woodwork, but I was feeling too pre-occupied to note and observe.