Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. — Carol Shields
Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent… — Philip Yancey
The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of… — Audrey Niffenegger
...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow. — Zadie Smith
The free man never thinks of escape. — Jeanette Winterson
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the… — Bret Easton Ellis
I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing. — Anais Nin
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the… — Anais Nin
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from… — Douglas Coupland
Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another. — Daniel Handler
Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. — Rick Riordan
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with… — Blaise Pascal
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read. — Christian Bauman
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that… — Paul Auster
It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same… — Chuck Palahniuk
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so. — Arthur Conan Doyle
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it… — Henry James
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina… — Pat Conroy
As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of the great truths… — Jennifer Weiner
It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. — Mahatma Gandhi
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge… — George Santayana
I look sad because I don't have the courage to escape from you. And I think I don't want to understand the truth: for you,… — Consuelo de Saint-ExupÃ©ry
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion. — Ram Dass
Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If… — Ayn Rand
Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to… — Ram Dass

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