Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our… — Stephen Levine
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. — Lloyd Alexander
Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate. — P L Travers
Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings,… — Melissa Marr
How is it that one woman is…enough…for three men?” “I don’t know.” “She must be a very talented courtesan.” “Callie.” “Well, that was what she… — Sarah MacLean
My thoughts took frantic flight, wanting to escape this prison, and seek out the wind so it could fan my hair and sting my skin,… — Virginia C. Andrews
Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding… — Thomas S. Monson
a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a… — Philip Roth
....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. — Lawrence Durrell
Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We… — Rollo May
Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape — Ellen Hopkins
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the… — George Eliot
Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot. — Rachel Caine
Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I… — Steven Erikson
We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves… — Wendell Berry
When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away. — Donald E. Westlake
I could envision it all to clearly: Stuart or Debbie finding the dented door off its hinges, lying in the snow. "She came in, ravaged… — Maureen Johnson
Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow,… — Steven Erikson
He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to… — Ayn Rand
When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty… — Ayn Rand
Escape is a consumer goods like another — Iain Banks
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice;… — Simone de Beauvoir
Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home. — Linda Howard
These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom. — Virginia Woolf

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