Escape Quotes

1931 quotes by 1394 authors

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones. — Anais Nin
Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly, awkward flesh and… — Isaac Marion
Iâ€™m going to lie this one right on the line, right here, right now: Iâ€™m pro big pants. Strident feminism NEEDS big pants. Really big.… — Caitlin Moran
The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up… — John Guare
And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. — John Green
we each devise our means of escape from the intolerable. — William Styron
When she wanted to escape her life, she read books — Jodi Picoult
. . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can. — Karen Cushman
When you read a great book, you donâ€™t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape â€“ into different… — Julian Barnes
For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent.… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such… — Walter Isaacson
Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the… — Alain de Botton
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more… — Anais Nin
I felt despair. The wordâ€™s overused and banalified now, despair, but itâ€™s a serious word, and Iâ€™m using it seriously. For me it denotes a… — David Foster Wallace
An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does — Daniel Handler
This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the… — Scott Westerfeld
For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible?… — Annie Proulx
Since my fried left me,I've got nothing to do but walking.I walk to forget.I walk,I escape,I get further.My friend will not come back,now I am… — Shel Silverstein
In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences… — Libba Bray
That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it? — John Green

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