Escape Quotes · Page 31

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

— Orson Scott Card

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

— Damon Albarn

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

— Martin Lewis Perl

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

— Franz Kafka

Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free

— Jamie Hewlett

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

— William S. Burroughs

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

— Dallas Willard

Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.

— Mel Odom

“In Fillory you felt the appropriate emotions when things happened. Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called.…

— Lev Grossman

“Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places…

— Michael Connelly

I think I was 10 or 11 years old. I think the first song I learned about then was 'Open Arms.' Then,…

— Arnel Pineda

I was so scared of my father. He'd pull up in his truck and start looking for something I'd done wrong. There…

— Roy Jones Jr

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was…

— Anonymous

Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma…

— Donovan

In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some…

— Michael Korda

For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something…

— Agnes Bruckner

“Then sudden Felagund there swaying Sang in answer a song of staying, Resisting, battling against power, Of secrets kept, strength like a…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Snakes shed their skin, cats their fur, manta rays their teeth. Man sheds used-up objects: he leaves an open Nesquik tin and…

— Marcelo Figueras

“I want more from life. I want to travel, see the world, and meet different kinds of people. I don’t want to…

— Anna B. Doe

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of…

— David Mitchell

“Unicorns know naught of shame, or need, or doubt, or debt; But mortals, as you may have noticed, take what they can…

— Peter S. Beagle

“I thought it was about us. About my escape. About our happily-ever-after. And it was. And it wasn't.”

— Tahereh Mafi Ignite Me

“The Doctor's plan, such as it was, was to escape from Barinska without being shot.”

— Justin Richards

“All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape.”

— Blind Melon

“Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.”

— Nenia Campbell

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

— Lucian

“The only place in all of the world where you can escape the dangers of love is hell.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Go into the desert not to escape other men but in order to find them in God.”

— Thomas Merton

You can't always run sometimes you have to stop and breathe and face what's in front of you.

— Joanne Lobedica

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

— Karin Slaughter

“his brown eyes are intoxicating, and in that moment, I see my escape.”

— Alex Flinn

Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing?

— Jo Cox

“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

— Bodhidharma

“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

— Eric Hoffer

“He was my escape, and sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.”

— Emily Giffin

“Storytelling is an escape from the jail of the self, leading to the ultimate adventure--seeing life through the eyes of another.”

— Tobias Wolff

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

— Jacques Derrida

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

— Jack Henry Abbott