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Escape Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.
- Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self…
- The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In…
- The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness…
- We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
- With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of…
More Escape Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the… — Samuel Johnson
- 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
- The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it.… — Wendell Berry
- God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through… — Sylvia Plath
- It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping… — Ralph Waldo Emerson