Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. Matthew Simpson
Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. Cormac McCarthy
A title as meaningless as the woman bearing it. The Empress-just another face she'd seen somewhere before, a mask behind which someone hid from mortality. "No use hiding,” she whispered, frowning down at the dead leaves and branches around her. "No use.”. Steven Erikson
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter. Francis Thompson
In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue. Ted Hughes