Fleeing Quotes

• You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Illusion
  • Infinite
  • Fleeing

• We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

  

  Antonio Guterres
  • People
  • Choices
  • Wells

• If you are made for flight, intended for it, you had better find a pursuer, fast. Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.

  

  Dan Chiasson
  • Made
  • Ifs
  • Flight

• When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

  

  Stephen Carter
  • Defense
  • Execution
  • Fleeing

• With two refugees setting themselves on fire after being sent to offshore detention camps, will (the minister for immigration) finally accept the consequences of putting desperate people in a situation even worse than the trauma they are fleeing?.

  

  Adam Bandt
  • Immigration
  • Refugees
  • Fleeing

• Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind.

  

  Dave Beard
  • Behind
  • Spooky
  • Dervishes

• Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Soul
  • Feels
  • Force