Pico Iyer Quotes

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count on escaping this place if I were you. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.

Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.

When you run in fear, it's square into the wall.

You need to face what you're running from

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

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.

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

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

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

No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!

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

There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.

Running away from something doesn't do anything except put distance.

I'm certainly never running away from the Seekers again.

To be honest, whenever I run away from something, I land up straight into it.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.

You can run from the grave, but you can't hide.

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.

Do not run away, it is cowardice.

"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."

You can wreck your future running from your past.