Top 350 Flee Quotes & Sayings

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

There are five possible operations for any army. If you can fight, fight; if you cannot fight, defend; if you cannot defend, flee; if you cannot flee, surrender; if you cannot surrender, die.

Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

People don't flee their homes because they want to, people flee their homes because they feel they have to. Why? Because they don't have a job, because they are being threatened by gangs, because they don't have basic things like water, education, health.

As a gay parent I must flee Russia or lose my children

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

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

When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the Church.

And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.

When he pretends to flee, do not pursue.

If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.

I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.

The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.

What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!

We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security

The most common user action on a Web site is to flee.

I grew up learning firsthand what it was like to flee communism and oppression.

Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends

The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.

The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.

I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee.

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

Attack if you can attack, defend if you can't attack, flee if you can't defend, surrender if you can't flee, die if you can't surrender!

People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.

Don't you complicate your mind Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.

I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

You have to look at the reality in Syria. Whenever we liberate any city or village from the terrorists, the civilians will go back to the city, while they flee that city when the terrorists attack that area, the opposite. So, they flee, first of all, the war itself; they flee the area under the control of the terrorists, they flee the difficult situation because of the embargo by the West on Syria.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

Respect movements, flee schools.

I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.