Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it. — Timothy Keller
No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be… — Greg Peterson
God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it. — Mary E. DeMuth
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. — Seneca the Younger
To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get… — P.J. O'Rourke
The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man. — Andre Gide
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape. — Mason Cooley
In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if… — James A. Baldwin
It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil. — Sophocles
Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it. — Sophocles
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer… — Lucy Larcom
No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance… — Art Buchwald
All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape. — Blaise Pascal
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness --… — Dag Hammarskjold
My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the… — John Fowles
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair. — Francois Mauriac
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public. — John Lahr
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. — Lucius Accius
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance.… — Clive Bell
Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell. — Anwar Sadat
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world. — W. E. B. Du Bois
They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape. — Hannah Arendt
The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections… — Thomas DiLorenzo
As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births. — Gautama Buddha

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