Quotes about Evasion

Death is easily fooled. If the churches don't work, a filter will do.

Either we may seek to conform our desires to the truth, which leads to conviction, or we may seek to conform the truth to our desires, which leads to evasion.

and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

He backed away and so did she.

My life, though, has been something (as only now at last I am able to see), but it is something that it has made of itself, not something that I have made of it. All I seem to have done is avoid wherever I could (so far) the man across the desk—for (so far) the world has afforded a little room for a few of us, lucky or blessed, to go around him. And now I wonder if I can die quickly enough and secretly enough to make the final evasion.

The religious answer is not really religious if it's not fully real. Evasion is the answer of superstition.

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze? A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.

He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look...the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness.

For knitting composed the mind; knitting served the necessary means of evasion; knitting constituted not only an escape, but a tangible protection, from husbands.

She was seeing the brand of pain and fear on the faces of people, and the look of evasion that refuses to know it—they seemed to be going through the motions of some enormous pretense, acting out a ritual to ward off reality, letting the earth remain unseen and their lives unlived, in dread of something namelessly forbidden—yet the forbidden was the simple act of looking at the nature of their pain and questioning their duty to bear it.