Pearl S. Buck Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Running, Home, Doors

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.7, Open Road Media

• For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as heroically as he likes, and no one laughs at him. It is almost impossible for a man to behave heroically in the cool and ordinary times of peace. But in war anything is allowed him, he is praised and applauded and made much of, as women are excused and allowed for in pregnancy.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Running, Real, War

• you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Running, Heart, Grieving

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Mother: A Novel”, p.195, Open Road Media

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