Cannot Escape Quotes

104 quotes by 92 authors

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow. — Zadie Smith
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code… — Ayn Rand
My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand. — Nhat Hanh
Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it. — Brian Jacques
Death did not play favoritesâ€”He loved all equally. What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure . The god's… — Lilith Saintcrow
What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure. — Lilith Saintcrow
Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later. — Daniel Handler
Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate. — P L Travers
Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We… — Rollo May
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part… — Carl Jung
Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or… — Marc Bekoff
I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head,… — Anne Sexton
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which… — Marcel Proust
. . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can. — Karen Cushman
You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of… — Catherynne M. Valente
Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change… — Karl Barth
We cannot escape history. — Abraham Lincoln
Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order to see itself. This is indeed amazing. Not so much… — George Spencer-Brown

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