We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of…

Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Writing is the self escaping into the open." E.B. White”

— Solveig Eggerz

Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will…

— Thomas a Kempis

The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in.

— Alfred Sheinwold

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

— Greil Marcus

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have…

— John Glover

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor…

— Edward Gibbon

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a…

— Gyorgy Ligeti

“Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?”

— Ali Smith

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides.…

— Daniel Barenboim

“The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

— Lasse Hallstrom

She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before,…

— Connie Brockway

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

— Anonymous