Escape Quotes
1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors
-
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
— Jean Racine
-
What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of…
— Pierre Bonnard
-
What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.
— Georg Baselitz
-
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty.…
— Louis L'Amour
-
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other…
— Joseph Addison
-
Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from…
— June Hunt
-
You know what rumors are like-like a jar full of moths. Once they escape, they're all over the place.
— Rhys Bowen
-
Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape.…
— Elsie Clews Parsons
-
For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to…
— Elizabeth von Arnim
-
I'm so despondent about everything. Everything I try goes totally wrong. There's no escape from this hole here. I feel drained. So far, I still…
— Joseph Goebbels
-
Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.
— Bow Wow
-
Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to be rich, or…
— Cal Thomas
-
I don't think I can ever escape from music.
— Jason Derulo
-
The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end that…
— Jules Henry
-
Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape through it in a continuous…
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
-
From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction . . .…
— Freeman Dyson
-
If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.
— Franz Kafka
-
If you're late to the rescue, the imprisoned princess will just have to escape on her own!
— Kyo Shirodaira
-
Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is…
— James L Hymes
-
Scuba Blue offers a feeling of escape as it is reminiscent of a tropical ocean. This stirring and energizing shade takes us off to an…
— Leatrice Eiseman
-
Many feel compelled to be connected around the clock because we are afraid we'll miss something important. There is a growing movement to step out…
— Leatrice Eiseman
-
All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.
— Peter Thiel
-
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.
— Katherine Dunn
-
Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched…
— Alexandra Fuller
-
St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Who Wrote These Escape Quotes
1,394 authors contributed a total of 1,931 Escape Quotes, led by these top contributors: