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Escape Quotes by Alain de Botton
- If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism…
- 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.…
- 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…
More Escape Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. — Antonin Artaud
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed… — David Bailey
- When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. — Julian Barnes
- We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. — Lynda Barry
- There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes
- Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. — Henry Ward Beecher