Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what… — Italo Calvino
Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to… — Pema Chodron
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore… — Thomas Jefferson
It is a false idea that the Saints will escape all the judgments, whilst the wicked suffer; for all flesh is subject to suffer and… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another.… — Richard Matheson
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to… — Frank Herbert
Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone? — Marina Tsvetaeva
Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He… — Diana Wynne Jones
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty… — Douglas Coupland
In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to… — Dean Koontz
A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape. — Salman Rushdie
We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on… — William J. Clinton
I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man.… — Raymond Chandler
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I… — Ray Bradbury
I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and… — Ellen Hopkins
I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing… — Robin Wasserman
Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought,… — Cynthia Heimel
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow — Rainer Maria Rilke
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code… — Ayn Rand
We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same… — Chuck Palahniuk
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card
The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was… — Chuck Klosterman
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere. — Bernhard Schlink

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