Quotes about running
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“Deep rivers run quiet.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Really? Is he running for Worst Boyfriend Ever?"
"In the subcategory of Completely Awesome.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

“Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.”

Stephen King book Doctor Sleep

Source: Doctor Sleep

Dogs

“If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.”

John Wyndham book The Chrysalids

Source: The Chrysalids

“It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Life, Sleep, Water, Night

“You can choose to die. You can choose to run… but dying alone won't change a thing. Trust me on that one. If you really want things to change… you're going to have to live.”

Kazuya Minekura (1975) Japanese manga artist

Change

“If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Water, Speed

“See Scott run,
Run Scott run.
See Scott die,
No such luck.”

David Lubar book Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

“Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.”

Kathy Acker book Blood and Guts in High School

Source: Blood and Guts in High School

Pain, World

“If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Truth, Universe

“Answer me this, did you hesitate at all or did you see the giant, go ‘Wheee!’ and run toward it?”
“She ran toward it,” Juke quipped.
“He was biting people in half.”
“I rest my case,” Curran said. “A note wouldn’t have made any difference.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Shifts

People

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Life, Men, Children, Nature

“It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says “Uh-oh” and then runs for his life.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Gunmetal Magic

Life

“He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Dreams, Idea, Waiting

“The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Death, Pain

“I assure you, princess, if you saw the real me, you’d run for cover. (Zarek)
Only if I knew you’d be waiting under that cover for me. (Astrid)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Waiting, Princess

“Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Dead

“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.”

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

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Silence

“Dont run before you can walk”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year.”

Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects

Source: Possible Side Effects

School, Suffering

“Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Home, Heart

“I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Pain, Way, Understanding

“As the joke goes, you don’t have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: A Fistful of Charms

Wolf

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

Variant: Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Motivational, Inspirational, Positive, Good Night

“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

Problem, Time

“The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike”

Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Source: Dr. Faustus

Star, Time

“Ah, you coward! Look at you, running."

"Actually, it's called improvising.”

Jonathan Stroud book Heroes of the Valley

Source: Heroes of the Valley

“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst

Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Pain, Idea, Success, Training

“Don't feel insecure just because you lost!! We are Fairy Tail! We're from the guild that doesn't know when to stop! We won't survive unless we keep running!”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

Feeling

“… when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.”

Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic

Source: The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays

“He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.”

Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho

Source: American Psycho

Thinking, Night

“It's okay," my husband said, shuffling toward his study. "I bought an electric-powered chain saw with a plug-in cord so if I run away fast enough, you can only chase me so far.”

Laurie Notaro American writer

Source: I Love Everybody

Study

“Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

Help

“In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

“You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without the soul-searching. It will be easier in the long run, Rachel Mariana Morgan.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Soul, Search

“Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster towards a finishing line that is merely the start of the next race.”

Matt Ridley book The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Source: The Red Queen (1993), Ch. 5
Source: The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Life

“The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Way, Time, Fight

“I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it?”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 15, The Song Is Over

Life, Cars, Cats

“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

“I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

“I think you run out of 'I love yous”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Love, Thinking

“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan (31 August 1959) <br class="br"> "Selected Quotations", Eisenhower Archives, Eisenhower Library, 2007-04-01, http://web.archive.org/web/20070208232736/http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/ss1.htm, 2007-02-08 http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/ss1.htm, <br class="br">1950s

People, Peace, Way, Thinking