Cyril Connolly Quotes

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

The resolution to avoid evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

What is deferred is not avoided.

There is no avoidance in delay.

If you keep running from me, you're never going to figure out what's really going on.

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.

It seemed better to delay thinking.

And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody want to help Mom do the dishes.

I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time. What I have seen, what I've seen is so bad.

The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to refuse responsibility for deciding about Christ, but Pilate's hands were never dirtier than just after he had washed them.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.

It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.

You can't conquer reality by running away from it.

Are you running away from something?

The easy way out usually leads back in.

Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.

You can run from some problems, but then you get caught up in others.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

If you had a dime for every excuse you made, I wouldn't have to be here right now.