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I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee. — M.I.A.

Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled. — Siegfried Sassoon

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form. — Herman Melville

All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield. — Nancy Springer

Richard made a break for it. 'Sorry,' he said to the stunned guard, as he yanked his arm out of the man's grip, and fled. 'Wrong London.' — Neil Gaiman

What could I say to make this beautiful girl know how desperately I needed her? Practiced words fled my mind & I shamelessly begged.#Ren — Colleen Houck

The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening. — Hafez

Bordoni and his wife fled to Venezuela, where he used some of the stolen money to buy a $3 million home and citizenship.103 — Gerald Posner

There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed. — Terry Pratchett

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men. — Lucan

They would beg for elegant attention; yet fled any kind of confrontation. — Ophelia Callens

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled. — Robert M. Pirsig

Spook stood up as nonchalantly as he could, then fled into the night. — Brandon Sanderson

Home is where the heart is, until we get a chance to bury it. Home is where the heart pulled the nails out of its feet, and fled. — Joey Comeau

I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death. — John Milton

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation. — Yasunari Kawabata

Come! our world is done:
For all the witchery of the world is fled,
And lost all wanton wisdom long since won. — Lionel Pigot Johnson

Where's the snow That fell the year that's fled
where's the snow? — Samuel Lover

My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army. — Amity Gaige

Last night I fled until I came
To streets where leaking casements dripped
Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame;
A nervous window bled. — Allen Tate

It was like the calm just as one engaged in battle, Will thought, when thought fled and inevitability took over. — Cassandra Clare

And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in the city's wake. — Philip Reeve

The man in black fled across the dessert and the gunslinger followed. — Stephen King

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude
And fled to the silence of sweet solitude. — John Clare

Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun. — Chief Seattle

I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect. — Storm Jameson

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. — Cormac McCarthy

When the light has fled but the stars have not yet shown themselves. That is the gloaming, the loveliest and saddest hour of the day. — Deanna Raybourn

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them. — Ray Bradbury

When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled. — Graham Chapman

They were just like the relations from whom I had fled as a girl. I couldn't bear them and yet they held me tight, I had them all inside me. — Elena Ferrante

unlike most Californians who fled their state and moved here and then wanted to make Montana into a version of what they left behind. — Dean Koontz

Maybe being brave was not highly desireable in women. Normal women would have fled, like Pansy. — Maureen Doyle McQuerry

He fled the light and the knowledge the light implied, and so came back to himself. Even so do the rest of us; even so the best of us. — Stephen King

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us. — Paul Gauguin

I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands. — Alfonsina Storni

And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life - well, that was nobody's business, was it? — Rick Riordan

Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered. — Mervyn Peake

Her flame with a clap of her hands. Bronwyn dropped the boy and he stumbled away. The Gypsies fled back to their wagons or into the woods. — Ransom Riggs

Prince Hrobarik, not being so gracious, tried to hire me to find a beauty who, sick of his vulgar advances, had fled the ball, losing a slipper. — Andrzej Sapkowski

A lot we have in our head,
But things of heart are not yet dead,
They have done none, but just fled,
Out of us, Forgotten, just been bled.. — Numey

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. — Charles De Lint

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there. — Sherman Alexie

All the bloomy flush of life is fled. — Oliver Goldsmith

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust. — Gene Tierney

Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled? — Joseph Smith Jr.

When time is flown, how it fled
It is better neither to ask nor tell,
Leave the dead moments to bury their dead. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

My lusts they do me leave,
My fancies all be fled,
And tract of time begins to weave
Grey hairs upon my head. — Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden

You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap! — Alexandre Dumas

But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night. — John Milton

Thus I fled, ridiculous hairy creature torn apart by poetry — John Gardner

Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more. — Aphra Behn

I have fled my country and gone to the heather. — Emily Bronte

To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled. — Colin Quinn

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins. — Edward Hirsch

It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory. — Martha Gellhorn

The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled. — John Keats

Mind where you're going, people muttered at me. I hated them, but really the person I hated was myself. I fled. — Rachel Joyce

The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Until now, I fell in love multiple times, and every time I got hurt, I fled, but from now on, I will continue to only think about takumi. — Ai Yazawa

I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it. — Ted Cruz

All fled - all done, so lift me on the pyre
The Feast is over, and the lamps expire. — Robert E. Howard

Those who fled will fight another time. — Tertullian

Arctic tern chicks are starving to death for similar reasons: they rely on small fish that have fled for colder waters. — Naomi Klein

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming. — John F. Kerry

Moaning Myrtle burst into anguished sobs and fled from the dungeon. Peeves shot after her, pelting her with moldy peanuts, yelling, Pimply! Pimply! — J.K. Rowling

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away. — Robert Burns

When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled. — Abraham Cowley

The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east, and errandless, unheralded he homeward sped. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Let's go get ready to do something incredibly stupid."
"Business as usual, then," he said, and fled the kitchen, laughing, before I could swat him. — Seanan McGuire

A kid ran into the darkness. His clothing was on fire; the flames streamed behind him as he fled screaming. — Michael Grant

The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead. — William Blake

Why do old men grow huge beards as if to proclaim a manhood that has long since fled? — Jeane Westin

Was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music
do I wake or sleep? — John Keats

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light. — Madeleine Albright

Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound when all else has fled. On — Margaret George

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. — Stephen King

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter. — Christopher Morley

It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold. — Frederica Mathewes-Green

When the demons of criticism have fled the thoughts, the Angels of beauty preside - oh cheerful sweet world exorcised! — Gabriel Brunsdon

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled. — Brian Francis Slattery

The intimacy of her name on his lips: the years fled like starlings. — Jo Baker

Could we live it over again, Were it worth the pain, Could the passionate past that is fled Call back its dead! — Oscar Wilde

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing. — Aga Khan III

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason ! — William Shakespeare

The Sword fled, and would have vanished utterly if the Pope had not granted them refuge in the ranks of the Teutonic Knights. — Neal Stephenson

And then a monstrous idea jumped into her head, a thought so ruthless and dark she almost fled from the contemplation of it. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

You forget love - though you fled from them, you secretly loved the monsters of your childhood ... — John Geddes

You may wonder why I'm not in the Hab right now. Because I fled in terror, that's why! And I'm not sure what the hell to do next. — Andy Weir

I feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet-hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled,
Whose garland's dead,
And all but he departed! — Thomas Moore

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form — John Adams

(Is this what we fled, when we left the ocean? Did we grow legs so we could run away?) — Cherie Priest

O! he give to us his Joy
That our grief he may destroy;
Till our grief is fled and gone
He doth sit by us and moan. — William Blake

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled. — William Goldman

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

You ask me why I compare you to stars - it's simple - that's where your goddess has fled ... — John Geddes

I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys ... — John Geddes

When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone. — Ouida

My heart can't stay here in this cage she herself fled. It must move on. — Pierce Brown