“Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.”

“Walking away, it's not the same as running, is it to you now, that you've run this in the ground?”

Chris Carrabba (1975) American musician

“Beyond myself, somewhere,
I wait for my arrival.”

Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature

“I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot”

Nadia Comăneci (1961) Romanian gymnast

“Every apostle or disciple," Mrs. Clarke says, "as much as their running to follow they're savior-they're running just as hard to escape something else.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

“Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!”

Winston Groom Forrest Gump

“It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

“I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on”

Jackson Browne (1948) American singer-songwriter

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

“We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer