Escape Quotes
1931 quotes by 1452 authors
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for…
— Aristotle
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I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So…
— Paul Auster
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The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
— Antonin Artaud
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets…
— Diane Ackerman
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In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed…
— David Bailey
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When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
— Julian Barnes
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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
— Lynda Barry
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
— Roland Barthes
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will…
— Wendell Berry
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
— Buffalo Bill
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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
— William Blackstone
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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
— Bill Bradley
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from…
— Pam Brown
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
— William S. Burroughs
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As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural…
— Nicolas Cage
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we…
— Albert Camus
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