Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape. — Mary Tyler Moore
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. — Albert Einstein
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more… — Mark Twain
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures. — Susan Jeffers
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
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not… — William Shakespeare
Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control. — Nicolas Chamfort
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape. — Michel de Montaigne
It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings. — Eric Hoffer
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an… — W. Somerset Maugham
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute… — George Meredith
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. — Solon
Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. — M. Scott Peck
Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war. — Thomas Jefferson
I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape. — Dennis Rodman
We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of… — Emile Coue
We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men… — Alfred Adler
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells… — Mark Twain
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape. — John Bunyan
No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour… — Joseph Hall
God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from… — William Gurnall
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs… — Richard J. Foster

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