--- title: "9 Life Escape Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 9 Life Escape quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Life Escape sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b2/t-s-eliot-633_escape_harry-but-i-thought-i-might-escape-from_827320.png" --- > [“HARRY: But I thought I might escape from one life to another, And it may be all one life, with no escape.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/harry-but-i-thought-i-might-escape-from-one-life-to-another-and-it/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b2/t-s-eliot-633_escape_harry-but-i-thought-i-might-escape-from_827320.png) > [Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/oh-no-real-life-is-escape-the-great-terrors-the-horrors-we-hope-of/) [Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-scott-card/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1f/orson-scott-card-134_escape_oh-no-real-life-is-escape-the-great-terr_2268194.png) > [“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robyn-yong/we-travel-not-to-escape-life-but-for-life-not-to-escape-us/) [Robyn Yong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robyn-yong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/883/robyn-yong-273930_life_we-travel-not-to-escape-life-but-for-lif_1423395.jpg) > [What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-clavell/what-are-clouds-but-an-excuse-for-the-sky-what-is-life-but-an-escape/) [James Clavell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-clavell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3e/james-clavell-4422_clouds_what-are-clouds-but-an-excuse-for-the-sk_2745691.jpg) > [“One day you realise your old life was only an escape from an inner silence”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judy-croome/one-day-you-realise-your-old-life-was-only-an-escape-from-an-inner/) [Judy Croome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judy-croome/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b5/judy-croome-34742_life_one-day-you-realise-your-old-life-was-on_2348095.jpg) > [You are here to experience life, not to escape from it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-wilde/you-are-here-to-experience-life-not-to-escape-from-it/) [Stuart Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0e/stuart-wilde-5226_escape_you-are-here-to-experience-life-not-to-e_3151552.png) > [I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helena-bonham-carter/i-just-went-and-got-an-agent-because-i-thought-i-can-create-my-own/) [Helena Bonham Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helena-bonham-carter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9c/helena-bonham-carter-3451_agent_i-just-went-and-got-an-agent-because-i-t_1316217.png) > [Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/suicide-is-an-escape-from-life-what-is-life-an-escape-from-death-this-2/) [Kobo Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be0/kobo-abe-9863_behinds_suicide-is-an-escape-from-life-what-is-l_3061371.jpg) > [“Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobo-abe/suicide-is-an-escape-from-life-what-is-life-an-escape-from-death-this/) [Kōbō Abe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobo-abe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33a/kobo-abe-9863_death_suicide-is-an-escape-from-life-what-is-l_1456307.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-escape/#itemlist", "name": "Life Escape Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“HARRY: But I thought I might escape from one life to another, And it may be all one life, with no escape.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "T. S. 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