Quotes about running
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“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Dreams

“If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

Love, People, Truth

“When the Dead do walk, seek water’s run,
For this the Dead will always shun.
Swift river’s best or broadest lake
To ward the Dead and haven make.
If water fails thee, fire’s thy friend;
If neither guards, it will be thy end.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (2001), pp. 359-360.

Water, Dead

“His mouth was hot and hungry, and he kissed the way no man should kiss and still be allowed to run free.”

Linda Howard (1950) American writer

Source: Mr. Perfect

Way, Kiss

“Life in District 12 isn’t really so different from life in the arena. At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Katniss, p. 118
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)

Life, Courage, Dead

“Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Source: Some Mistakes of Moses

Personality

“My body is not designed to run. My body was designed to sit in an expensive care and drive.”

Janet Evanovich book One for the Money

Source: One for the Money

“I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Feeling

“Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Hell

“He wanted to run to her, wrap her in his arms. Protect her. But it was Jem’s place to do those things, not his. Not his.” -Will Herondale”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul”

John Piper (1946) American writer

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

Life, God

“I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Fate, Future

“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Happiness, Time, For Men

“I hoped they couldn't run very fast with those stubby little legs and flippers, but they waddled along pretty well.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Hope

“This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on…”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“So, no more running. I aim to misbehave.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Variant: I aim to misbehave.

“« He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast Lord style.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

Home, Flying

“Did you miss me?’
“A little bit,” she said with a shrug.
“You have tears running down your cheeks,” he said with a grin. “I think you missed me more than a little.”

Robyn Carr American writer

Source: Wild Man Creek

Thinking, Tear

“Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Hell

“Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Past, Future

“Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Sun

“Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Joy

“Got to keep thatin mind. I'm a ninja now… I swore I'd never freeze up or run away again… AND I WON'T…!”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Vol. 02: The Worst Client

“We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make -- and the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.”

Ken Robinson (1950) UK writer

People, Education

“and I try
to draw the line
but it ends up running down the middle of me
most of the time.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Source: Ani DiFranco: Verses

Time, Drawing

“We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Way, Despair

“If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.”

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Problem

“Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

Love

“But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

Shoe, Dance

“I’d gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters and nightmares, because it was easier than going to the gym.”

Jim Butcher book Skin Game

Source: Skin Game

“Love was like an avalanche, with Sephy and I hand-in-hand racing like hell to get out of it's way-only, instead of running away from it, we kept running straight towards it.”

Malorie Blackman Noughts & Crosses

Source: Noughts & Crosses

Love, Way, Hell

“God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Life, God, Personality

“… how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you?”

Katherine Hannigan (1962) American artist and novelist

Source: Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

Sadness, Feeling, Parting

“Most of Set’s forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright).”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Way, Search

“But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.”

Kenneth Oppel Skybreaker

Source: Skybreaker

Chance

“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.
Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,
that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook
your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“Part of me could do it. Run off and get married. But another part… Another part of me wondered if I could really trust anyone. If all relationships were all doomed.”

Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist

Source: Ten Things We Did

Parting

“Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it”

Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic

Truth

“The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts.”

Karen Blixen book Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

Star, Tear, Grass, Singing

“Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.”

Cherry Adair (1951) South African-American writer

Source: Kiss and Tell

“Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.”

Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress

Source: To His Coy Mistress (1650-1652)
Context: Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Sun

“We could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.”

Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) American translator

Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

Life, God, Business

“I run with the hunted.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Variant: Run with the hunted.

“When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Time

“That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.”

Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) American poet, art critic and writer

“Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist

Source: Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

Wolf

“If you chase him in a black nightie, first he’ll have sex with you…
and then he’ll run.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Sex

“It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

School, Teachers

“the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Boy

“I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday…”

John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter

Source: John Mayer - Battle Studies

Love, Goodbye

“He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.”

Holly Black book Black Heart

Source: Black Heart

“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us”

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist

Source: Strait is the Gate and The Vatican Cellars

“Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

Source: My Fair Godmother

Guy, Heart

“When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called 'rent-a-spine.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Quoted from an interview for the television programme "The Thatcher Years - Part 2" on BBC1 The Thatcher Years 2 of 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEYPKLyug5c (13 october 1993) <br class="br">Post-Prime Ministerial

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