Quotes about running
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“Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.”

Jonathan Kellerman (1949) novelist, psychologist

Source: Time Bomb

“It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.”

Reginald Rose Twelve Angry Men

Source: Twelve Angry Men

Truth, Personality

“I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.”

Leo Tolstoy book The Kreutzer Sonata

Source: The Kreutzer Sonata

Lovers

“It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Source: The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories

Time

“I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner (2003), P. 391

Children, Smile

“We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.”

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

Life, Speed

“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Life, Happiness, Search

“He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.”

John Bunyan (1628–1688) English Christian writer and preacher

God

“Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy in Spite of Herself

Source: Betsy in Spite of Herself

“I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Books

“It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

People, Books

“… Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

Time, Hurt

“Did you run any of this by Curran?”
“I told him I was about to do something idiotic and dangerous, and he told me to go ahead and let him know if he could help in any way.”
“I don’t understand your relationship.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Binds

Way, Understanding, Help

“People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.”

William Trevor book Love and Summer

Source: Love and Summer

People

“For a moment the garden, the noise, the stentch of blood and demon, vanished away, and he was alone in a soundless place with only Tessa. 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.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

“If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.”

Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Hurt

“Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.”

Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian

Stupidity, Guy

“Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he'd ever met one, chances are they'd both have run screaming in opposite directions.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Golem's Eye

Source: The Golem's Eye

Girl, Chance

“It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.”

Markus Zusak book Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Source: Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Thinking, Time

“The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact. Every play-by-play description on the radio, the home runs and strikeouts, even that's delayed a few minutes. Even live television is postponed a couple seconds. Even Sound and light can only go so fast.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 1

Home, Problem, Light

“That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten
people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.”

Jeannette Walls (1960) American writer and journalist

Love, People

“When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.”

Cory Doctorow (1971) Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author

“Don’t run to the phone, run to the throne.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.”

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Courage, Sense

“You could run to the farthest corners of the earth. There's no place you could go where I wouldn't love you. Nothing you could do to stop me.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

Love

“In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Water

“Keep me preoccupied
Keep me busy, busy, busy
So I won't have to think
I don't want to think
Because it only brings me pain
I just keep running away from
My problems
Keep me busy
Give me a million things to do
So I can keep running away from myself.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Pain, Business, Problem, Thinking

“I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.”

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

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

Love

“V chuckled. "I had to do something to shut you up. Every damn time I've run into you since I grew it, you ask me if I've French-kissed a tailpipe."

(Rhage)”

Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal

Source: Lover Eternal

Kiss, Time

“A little too abstract, a little too wise,
It is time for us to kiss the earth again,
It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies,
Let the rich life run to the roots again.”

Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet

Source: The Selected Poetry

Life, Kiss, Time

“And speaking of females, if I call you by one's name while my fangs are plunged deep in your neck, just run with it.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

“Run!” Piper said.
“We are running!” Jason picked up the speed.
“Run better!” Leo shouted.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Source: The Demigod Diaries

Speed

“You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.”

Philip Pullman book Clockwork

Source: Clockwork

“I didn't know that, you take your coffee seriously, dont you?'
'Every morning, I run to the coffeemaker like a soldier returning to a lost love after the war.”

Lisa Kleypas book Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Source: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Love, War, Coffee

“It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.”

Jerome K. Jerome book Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

Girl

“Mercy is not a proper Indian name."……….."Rash Coyote Who Runs With Wolf. We could shorten it to Dinner Woman.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

Wolf

“He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“One of you guys is going to have to feed the vampiric lawyer some blood and it can’t be me. (Caleb)
Why? You afraid of a little bite?
I’m anemic. (Nick)
And I’m Catholic. Doesn’t that knock me out of the running? (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Guy

“Finally the vampire released him with another groan, sitting back on his haunches. "Your blood isin power." Running his tongue over a fang, he said, "Among other things. I believe I might be high. But Iit.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

“Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.”

David Hume (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

Letters
Source: Letters of David Hume 2 vols

Sense

“Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you”

John Irving book The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

Thinking

“How we remember changes how we have lived.
Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.”

Guy Gavriel Kay book Under Heaven

Source: Under Heaven

Way, Change, Time

“In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Men Without Women (short story collection) (1927)
Source: The Complete Short Stories

Time, Heart

“Coyote to Mercy:

"I didn't know about you until a lot later. Then I stopped to check you out. You looked happy running with the wolves. They looked bewildered- which is as it should be when a coyote plays with wolves.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

Happiness

“Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

Life

“She said people found running to something easier than running from something.”

Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist

Source: Ten Things We Did

People

“Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Books, Water

“If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.”

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

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

History, Thinking

“They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed—run over, maimed, destroyed—but they continued to play anyhow.”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

Author’s Note (p. 276)
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977)

Children, Time

“He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her… One last time…”

Malorie Blackman Noughts & Crosses

Source: Noughts & Crosses

Time

“What you can't run away from, you have to face”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: The Devil's Right Hand

“We had a good run, and now it’s over; what’s wrong with that?”

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

“A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

Life, Art, Study

“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

"Araby"
Dubliners (1914)

“One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women mean trouble in the house. Three pretty women mean run for the hills.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1991)

Women, Dance, Housing

“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
Source: Fight Club

God, Flying

“Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions.” Ben shot Hi a stern look. “No running commentary.” “Your loss,” Hi said. “To the pimp ride!”

Kathy Reichs book Seizure

Source: Seizure

Loss

“Your time's running out, Valkyrie." Fegley gave another wallop before he squeaked off.

Regin narrowed her eyes, watching him till he was out of sight. "One day I'm going to make that little piggy cry all the way home.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Way, Home, Time, Cry

“LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

God, Distant

“Sometimes people run… to see if you'll come after them”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

People

“Why wouldn’t we run to God. He’s sooo good. God’s not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God, Help, Madness

“Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“the way to create art is to burn and destroy
ordinary concepts and to substitute them
with new truths that run down from the top of the head
and out of the heart”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Truth, Art, Way, Heart

“Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.”

John Connolly (1968) author

Source: Nocturnes

Problem, Parting

“I thought only a wooden stake through the heart killed a vampire. (Amanda)
A wooden stake through the heart will kill just about anything. And if it doesn't, run like hell. (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Hell, Heart

“Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

Way

“The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

Source: Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

Beauty, Search, Knowledge, Wealth

“luck runs out but blessings never do!”

E. Lynn Harris Invisible Life

Source: Invisible Life

“An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Personality

“We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Life, Chance, Time

“Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“Everyone cries sometimes, Tory. There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking. I don’t think any less of you for it. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Pain, Thinking

“I suppose like others
I have come through fire and sword,
love gone wrong,
head-on crashes, drunk at sea,
and I have listened to the simple sound of water running
in tubs
and wished to drown”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Love, Water, Sea

“See the TURTLE of enormous girth,
On his shell he holds the earth.
If you want to run and play,
Come along the BEAM today.”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Men, Thinking

“You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.”

Jim Butcher (1971) American author

Guy

“It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Friendship

“I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime… People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.”

Silas House (1971) American writer

Source: Eli the Good

People

“In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.”

Howard Zinn book A People's History of the United States

Source: A People's History of the United States

History

“I'd turn and run but I'm anchored by two dudes that could hold the Titanic during a tsunami.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

“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

Source: Forrest Gump

“There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.”

Kristin Armstrong (1973) American road bicycle racer

Soul

“For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away…”

Agatha Christie book After the Funeral

Source: After the Funeral (1953)
Context: There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...

People, Truth, Lie

“Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Source: I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories

Men

“If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“I run blindly through the madhouse… And I cannot even pray… For I have no God.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

God

“We’re going jogging.”
“I don’t run for recreation. I run when someone’s after me with a weapon.”
“That can be arranged”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Embrace the Night

“Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!

live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.”

Jerry Garcia (1942–1995) American musician and member of the Grateful Dead

Life, Hope, Future

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)

Chance, Personality

“I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. 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, Time

“Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

Source: Lonesome Dove

“You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'… You can't have it both ways.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

Way

“Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

A phrase used in many notable speeches by King, which is actually a quotation of Amos 5:24 in the Bible.
Misattributed
Variant: Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail

Justice, Water

“"You know, most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction."
"Ah, that might explain why I so often run into people who seem to dislike me."”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Clary and Jace, pg. 331
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Hostility, People

“You'll use it [Perrin's axe], boy, and as long as you hate using it, you would use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.”

Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World

Elyas Machera
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World

Men, Hate, Way, Boy

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Quotes about running
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