Escape Quotes

1931 quotes by 1394 authors

A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be… — Adolf Hitler
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television… — Shirley Chisholm
I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown! — Richard Neutra
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests… — A. C. Benson
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him… — Arthur Koestler
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of… — Pema Chodron
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. — Horace
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt… — Lewis Gannett
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape. — Mary Tyler Moore
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. — Albert Einstein
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more… — Mark Twain
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures. — Susan Jeffers
For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not… — William Shakespeare
Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control. — Nicolas Chamfort
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape. — Michel de Montaigne

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