Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let… — Lawrence Durrell
DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the… — Eugene Ionesco
As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with… — Tom Robbins
...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we… — Jose Saramago
While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. — Cyril Connolly
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they… — Friedrich Nietzsche
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward,… — Homer
No", Tori said, " I kidnapped her and forced her to escape with me. I've been using her as a human shield against those guys… — Kelley Armstrong
Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that… — John Kennedy Toole
They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult. — Arthur Miller
he'd once believed that the answer lay somehow in the music he created, he suspected now that He'd been mistaken. The more he thought about… — Nicholas Sparks
I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an… — Elizabeth Kostova
One doesn’t become a witch to run around being helpful either…. It’s to escape all that – to have a life of one’s own, not… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it. — Laurell K. Hamilton
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim… — Katherine Dunn
The mist starts to form as we stand close to one another. It is a distant fog that rises from the horizon, and I find… — Nicholas Sparks
Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it. — Mark Doty
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. — Don DeLillo
The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into… — Azar Nafisi
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light… — Helen Keller
His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact,… — George Orwell
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. — David Mitchell
What's wrong with the world Peter? God, I don't know. Where do you start? People give up. We're defeatists and we stop striving or fighting… — Jenny Valentine
Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep… — J. Maarten Troost
Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with… — John Stuart Mill

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