Escape Quotes
1931 quotes by 1394 authors
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Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If…
— Jodi Picoult
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All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie.…
— John Banville
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We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull.…
— Alain de Botton
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This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother…
— John Irving
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Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her…
— Edith Wharton
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Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying…
— Josef Pieper
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Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing…
— T.D. Jakes
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Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.
— Wil Wheaton
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Day 24. Situation is growing worse. My captors continue to find new and horrific ways to torture me. When not working, Agent Scarlet spends her…
— Richelle Mead
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Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible. She's not dead. Not this time.
— Meg Cabot
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It is this kindness of his that unsettles me most. I can dodge a blow or block a knife. I am impervious to poison and…
— R.L. LaFevers
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Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldn’t be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too…
— Douglas Coupland
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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They…
— Haruki Murakami
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Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey…
— Emile Durkheim
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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and…
— David Mitchell
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Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.
— David Levithan
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We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for…
— Jodi Picoult
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