Escape Quotes · Page 27

I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

— Damon Albarn

No more as I wake from this perfect dream...I'll escape from Eden's walls.

— Alesana

On the phone he can escape, in person, he's got nowhere to go. I wanna see his face.-Matt King

— The Descendants

“When all else fails, go away completely, however long feels necessary.”

— Shellen Lubin

It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.

— Madame Roland

Comedy can simultaneously allow you to dive headfirst into the world's pain and escape it.

— Abbi Jacobson

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.

— Jennifer Egan

“God doesn’t promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good.”

— Jim George

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our…

— Steven Erikson

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Into this new love, die your way begins on the other side become the sky take an axe to the prison wall,…

— Jelalludin Rumi

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope…

— William S. Burroughs

“She’s been trying to escape since she was little. The thing I don’t think she’s realized is that eventually you have to…

— Morgan Matson

“And what, brothers, I had to escape into sleep from then was the horrible and wrong feeling that it was better to…

— Anthony Burgess

If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

“ Life In Love Escape me? Never--- Beloved! While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains…

— Robert Browning

“A poor man needs the escape far more than a wealthy man does." "Escape," Amanda repeated, having never heard a book described…

— Lisa Kleypas

“I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an…

— Neil Gaiman

“When we escape into a book, become absorbed into it, are magically transported, nothing becomes more visible, upon our return, than the…

— Tiffany Eberle Kriner

“But as he stood at the brink of that decision, into the vacuum created by that shimmering lure of escape returned his…

— Mark Frost

There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it,…

— Sam Shepard

“He approaches a cockroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this he has a tremendous…

— Nabokov Vladimir

“I have often plotted my great escape to the beach. To live seaside and to be able to stare possibility and tranquility…

— Erica Goros

I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon

— Karen Chance

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

— David Mitchell

Few escape our most deprived estates. Few young people with potential escape difficult upbringings. Fewer cross the social divides.

— Chris Grayling

“All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page...”

— Raymond Chandler

For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many…

— Peter Temple

Pardon me if this all sounds corny, but when you put on a record, I'd like it to be an escape from…

— Aesop Rock

I always thought that you can escape from a policeman, but you cannot escape from a curse.

— Alice Rohrwacher

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.

— Stephen Hawking

I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to…

— Lloyd Alexander

We dont offer you any solutions necessarily but we definitely offer you a minute to escape.

— Alex Gaskarth

“That’s how they hooked you—they gave you just enough to keep alive but they never gave you enough so you could finally…

— Charles Bukowski

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have a tendency to catastrophise and doing something that you have control over is an escape from that.

— Stacey Solomon

I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character,…

— Vince Vaughn

“Reading is a way of disciplining our minds, and it is also one of the most efficient means of mental escape.”

— Andrew Piper

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

— Geri Halliwell