Sentence examples for flee pain from inspiring English sources

"It now seems rational to flee pain rather than to face it, even at the cost of addiction," said Illich.

A young hero not dissimilar to Goethe's Werther, René, who flees pain and suffering in Europe to look vainly for refuge in the wilds of America, came to represent the mal du siècle (world-weariness, literally "sickness of the century"), the essence of Romantic sensibility; he is insecure, solitary, disorientated, and in flight, searching for a happiness that will always evade him.

But if we are not fleeing pain, then aversion does reduce to love, to the pursuit of some good or other.

Or, to put it another way: without the need to flee from pain by transfiguring it, you would not have the energy to endure the suffering, the solitude, and the uncertainty that are part and parcel of artistic expression.

It's as if the melody was trying to break free from its reins, just as the singer was aiming to flee his pain.

As his attendant fled in pain, Zhu Di called out his name.

Nothing's more romantic than a fetus!) Presumably a serious medical condition, his needles and pins case is so severe that he flees in pain and is reduced to tears, literally praying to god that his torture ends swiftly.

Did I flee from the pain of being true to myself because of what my actions would generate?

Pain flees into the rain.

It is 35 years since Brian Clark wrote of the man who fought to flee a long, pain-free but 'intolerable' future in his television play, Whose Life is it Anyway?

As things stand, no resolution authority can push losses onto creditors, rather than taxpayers, without sparking a run as counterparties flee in expectation of pain.