“People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it.”

“The trouble with witches is that they’ll never run away from things they really hate.

And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them’s a mongoose.”

“We give to necessity the praise of virtue.”
Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.

“I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.”

“I believe that too many people stay at jobs they hate to get more vacation days so that they can spend more time away from the jobs they hate.”

“It came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.”

“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.”

“After all this running away from finished things, I ran into myself as a finished thing. And I’m still running away from finished things.”

“I'm running on hate. When the energy from that ebbs I'll be worthless.”

“You can run away from home
But you can't run away from your pain
I sit here alone
There's always someone else to blame.”