Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church… — Thomas Merton
Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled… — Soren Kierkegaard
Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper. — Janet Frame
As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read… — Charlaine Harris
What will be will be.No one can escape fate's design. — Christopher Paolini
Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates. — Cheyenne McCray
There’s nowhere to escape,” Dobey said, jamming his hands into his pockets and staring into the Valley. That’s not true, baby,” said Desiree. She took… — Francesca Lia Block
They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing,… — Ray Bradbury
For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was… — Diablo Cody
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of… — William Saroyan
Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else,… — Cornelia Funke
I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's… — Elizabeth Scott
And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of… — William L. Shirer
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions. — Marya Hornbacher
He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur… — Lloyd Alexander
On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but… — Simone de Beauvoir
He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is… — J M Coetzee
Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to… — Daniel Handler
He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the… — William Faulkner
escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll… — Charles Bukowski
A past may chase you if you try to escape from it... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's… — Kazuya Minekura
I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen.… — Haruki Murakami
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic… — Oscar Wilde

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