Runner's High Quotes

I love running. It's as simple as that ... it has given me endless rewards: physical, emotional, and professional. The benefits of running are lifelong. I ran as a child, and I intend to run into my old age.

Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running the mind flies with the body; the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.

A good run adds a little bounce to my step. I get a certain amount of self-esteem from it.

That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.

I'm a runner. I like to run.

Running is the heart of what it means to be human.

I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Running has taken me in, and continues to comfort, heal and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a 'good runner' because I am me. I am a good 'me' because I am a runner.

I'm really into my running workout. Running really helps me clear my head and makes me feel good, especially when I'm stressed.

When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that - if you don't get that runner's high every day, you feel like, 'Oh my God, I'm losing it.'

Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness... Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner.

I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human — which means its a superpower all humans posses.

You don't need cocaine! There's another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it's called marathon running!

I am a lonely runner, but I am a long-distance runner.

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

I think I get used to, even addicted to, the feelings associated with the end of a long training run. I love feeling empty, clean, worn out, starving, and sweat-purged. I love the good ache of muscles that have done me proud. I love the way a cold beer tastes later that afternoon. I love the way my body feels light and sinewy.

But if I go for a run somewhere, I feel the benefits of the endorphin release.

You never see a smiling runner.

Old #64 chose... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.