Quotes about running
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“Love and loyalty runs deeper than blood.”

Source: Vampire Academy

“The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Life, Faith, Law, Feeling

“You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes."
- Jennifer, "Beauty Queens”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Men, Pain, Beauty

“That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Training

“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”

Raymond E. Feist book Silverthorn

Source: Silverthorn

Sense

“She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Pain, Thinking, Reality, Suffering

“A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.”

Jacqueline Susann book Valley of the Dolls

Source: Valley of the Dolls

Feeling

“Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno."
"Why Fresno?"
"Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

People, Drink

“You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth.
“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Lie, Family

“The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist

Lie, Learning

“You can run but you can't hide… but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.”

Jodi Picoult book Songs of the Humpback Whale

Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale

Pain, Feeling

“There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.”

Peter Benchley book Jaws

Source: Jaws

Fear, Fish, Sea

“That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Parting

“First, you start carrying a man satchel. Next thing you know, you're running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite”

Diane Ackerman (1948) Author, poet, naturalist

Source: A Natural History of Love

Love, Life

“I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill my soul with flesh. I should fill my flesh with soul. In fact, I should reconcile at last within me the two internal antagonists.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek

Cars, Soul, Learning, Horse

“Man, he wasn't going to need a stress test anytime soon. If his heart could get through a kiss from her, he could probably run a marathon.

While dragging a car behind him.

Sideways to the road.”

Jessica Bird book Dark Lover

Source: Dark Lover

Cars, Kiss, Heart

“Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Women, Truth, Problem

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Variant: I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.
Source: On the Road

Star, Night

“Plan F, we follow Plan F, right now.
- Is that the one where we run away?
- Not at all. It's the one where we beat a dignified emergency retreat.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Whispering Skull

Source: The Whispering Skull

“Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass."
Like somehow we're running out of time.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Feeling, Time

“If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

God

“Do you know what it's like to run spellcheck for six hours? It's like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they have to drink is sugar-free Kool-aid, and the only game to play is Monopoly, and none of your friends show up.”

Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer

Game, Drink

“Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.”

Barbara Kingsolver Pigs in Heaven

Source: Pigs in Heaven

Money, People, Thinking, Time

“If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.”

Darren Shan (1972) Irish writer of English-language fiction under pen name, real name Darren O'Shaughnessy

Death, Idea, Night

“I'm running on hate.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Hate

“I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

Future

“You can do this" I murmured. "You are my brother. I love you. All the embarrassing bits, all the annoying bits, which I imagine is most of you--a thousand Zias might run away from you if they knew the truth. But I won't. I'll still be here.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Love, Truth, Imagination

“Rising from the past, my shadow
Is running in silence to meet me.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Silence, Past

“You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Love, Rosie

Truth

“It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Being Peace

Happiness, Future

“What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!”
Percy had no intention of doing that.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

People, Question, Thinking

“I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.”

Joseph Delaney book The Spook's Mistake

Source: The Spook's Mistake

Tear, Parting

“She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.”

Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer

Source: Go Ask Alice

Home, Heart

“It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.”

Michael Crichton book Congo

Source: Congo

“I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 2: Sixteen Steps

“I’m not strong enough for this,” he whispered in her ear—like he didn’t want anyone to hear that coming out of his mouth. Ever. Running her hands up his powerful back, she held him just as hard. “But I am.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: The King

Strong

“It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.”

Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist

Failure, Success

“But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.”

Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Source: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Soul

“I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.”

Annie Dillard book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Thinking, Learning, Reading

“Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

“Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.”

Borís Pasternak (1890–1960) Russian writer

LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)

Tear, Night

“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Fight

“Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

Learning

“If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Stupidity, Cars

“I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.”

Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here

Source: A Place Called Here

“So when a dragon is directly over you, well, even if you're me and you're kind of used to it, your medulla oblongata is still telling you 'the sky is falling, you're about to die, run like hell.”

Robin McKinley Dragonhaven

Source: Dragonhaven

Hell

“Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.”

Richard Ford book Canada

Source: Canada

Dreams, Time

“I came back, Uncle Eddie. Last year, after the Henley, I could have gone to any school in the world -- I could have done anything, but I came back."

"You ran away, Katarina."
"And now I'm back."

"You're still running.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

World, School

“But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Variant: Obviously it won't all run smoothly. But it's important to awknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn fromt them.
Source: Lock and Key

Learning

“Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.”

James Allen book As a Man Thinketh

Source: As a Man Thinketh

Intelligence

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”

Edward O. Wilson (1929) American biologist

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), p. 294.

Wisdom, People, World, Thinking

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Light, Future

“What’s going on?” he demanded.
“The usual, old man,” I replied cheerily. “Danger, insane plans… you know, the stuff that runs in our family.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Family

“Run like the river.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Source: Gregor the Overlander Box Set

“Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.”

Tim Gunn (1953) American actor and fashion consultant

Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

People, Way

“But there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion. There was nothing even to bury. I was eleven then. Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Food

“Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.”

Dean Karnazes (1962) American distance runner

Life, Peace

“Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Girl, Suffering, Selfishness

“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”

Mark Strand (1934–2014) Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator

Source: Selected Poems

Happiness

“I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Source: Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews

Hell, Drink

“like the fox
I run with the hunted
and if I’m not
the happiest man
on earth
I’m surely the
luckiest man
alive.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps

“I need to write. It keeps me focused for long enough to complete thoughts. To let each train of thought run to its conclusion and let a new one begin. It keeps me thinking. I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

Feeling, Thinking, Training

“We were born to run; we were bornwe run.”

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

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

“I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

Fear, Feeling, Hell, Knowledge

“Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.”

Irvine Welsh book Skagboys

Source: Skagboys

Way, Universe, Time

“It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.”

Annie Dillard book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Happiness, Books, Night

“I can't fight.
I was once run over by a car with a flat tire, being pushed by two guys.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Cars, Guy, Fight

“Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Life

“I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too. Don't you see, dear, how it was?”

Sherwood Anderson book Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.”

Roberto Bolaño book Last Evenings on Earth

Dentist
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)

Life, Lie, Secret, Art

“We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period.”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Source: Big Sur

Life, Cars, Understanding

“Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from”

Rolf Potts (1970) American writer

Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Problem

“There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.”

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

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

Pleasure, Fear, Way, Problem

“I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.”

Carolyn Keene book The Clue of the Broken Locket

Source: The Clue of the Broken Locket

Time

“Oh, no. We can’t have that. Where you going, Mr. Meanie-Pants? You don’t hurt people then run. That’s just rude. Can the Simi barbecue him, or is he on the ‘No Simi’ eat list?” – Simi”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

People, Hurt

“There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: Simply Magic

Happiness

“I was caught between going yippy-skippy i get to play with them both, and running like hell.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

Hell

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

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

“Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Rage

“Stop running, you fools!" Kronos yelled. "Stand and ACKK!"
That last part was because a panicked Hyperborean giant stumbled backwards and sat on top of him. The lord of time disappeared under a giant blue butt.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Fools, Time, Parting

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

Way, Home, Thinking

“I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.”

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

“Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.'
It was the perfect motto for Morganville.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Chapter 13
Variant: Run first,"" Shane said. ""Mourn later.""
It was the perfect motto for Morganville.""
Source: Glass Houses

Perfection

“When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“Any activity?" Robert asked.
"Not in the lasssht ten minutesh. Before that, very exshiting. I shaw Wolf Beta run by. There were vampiresh chassing her. She was yelling, 'Bill me, bloodshuckers!”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Wolf

“Don't you ever feel that way? Likecould do a better job if you rqan the world?'
'Um… no. Me running the world would be kind of a nightmare.”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

World, Way, Feeling

“Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.”

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

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

“Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

Fear, Suffering, Time

“Insanity runs in my family, it practically gallops”

Cary Grant (1904–1986) British-American film and stage actor

Family, Funny, Family

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”

Jane Austen book Love and Freindship

Source: Love and Friendship

Madness

“No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.”

Bohumil Hrabal book Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

Source: Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

Books, Sleep

“I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.
Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

Love, Life, Money, People

“Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me through with that damned ceremonial sword, and if his wife's stares were daggers, he'd be dead already.”

Eoin Colfer book Airman

Source: Airman

Wine, Dead

“Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Happiness

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