Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is… — C.S. Lewis
Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval… — John Knowles
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for… — Terry Goodkind
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. .… — J.R.R. Tolkien
a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble… — William Faulkner
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one… — John Green
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own… — Hakim Bey
This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between… — Cornelia Funke
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces.… — Edward Abbey
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply… — Flannery O'Connor
Here you go on this long long dream. Don't even try to wake up. Just let it go on until it is over. You will… — Francesca Lia Block
It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and… — Wallace Stegner
Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people… — Anais Nin
I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the… — Emily Bronte
Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating… — Dr. Seuss
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good… — Terri Windling
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and… — Ann Radcliffe
I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are… — Erica Jong
I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating… — Bret Easton Ellis
Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape. — Mel Odom
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we… — Italo Calvino
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves… — Sigmund Freud
I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from… — Albert Einstein
Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save… — Sherman Alexie

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