Escape Quotes
1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors
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When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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so i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this…
— Taylor Swift
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THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no…
— Ellen Hopkins
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I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh…
— Dean Karnazes
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Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we…
— Orhan Pamuk
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Well I'm not dancing," Will said through gritted teeth. "I don't know how." Oh yes you are," Alyss told him. "Let's hope you're a fast…
— John Flanagan
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Death did not play favorites—He loved all equally. What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure . The god's…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the…
— Jose Saramago
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When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In…
— Mitch Albom
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Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Do you believe in luck, Ludlow?" I had thought about this more than once in my life. "I believe some poeple are luckier than others."..."Which…
— F.E. Higgins
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Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain
— Aesop
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We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from.…
— Wendell Berry
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[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is…
— Wendell Berry
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The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned…
— James Joyce
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He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see…
— John Fowles
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Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors --…
— Hannah Arendt
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How did you escape? (Syd) I fought my way out in a manner that would have made Rambo proud. And when I got home without…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of…
— Ayn Rand
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently…
— Boris Pasternak
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Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
— T.E. Lawrence
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Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and…
— Robert Graves
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What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short…
— Hermann Hesse
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