Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

It was nice to be alone, not to have to smile and look pleased; a relief to stare dejectedly out the window at the sheeting… — Stephenie Meyer
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. — Ronald Reagan
I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it… — Carl Jung
I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself. — Rabih Alameddine
I'm sorry, Dite." Dite shrugged away the apology. "You have spared my brother when you could have killed him and you have offered me escape… — Megan Whalen Turner
I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no… — Amy Tan
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge. — Joseph Conrad
you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. — Ernest Hemingway
Trust, faith,good, bad... none of it matters. All you ever do is what you have to do. Follow your disires, fulfill your needs, escape from… — Kevin Brooks
Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form. — Salman Rushdie
The brilliant escape, the funny line to cap it, despite the lack of timing. And the girl was still dead. The last act had not… — Paul Cornell
But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve… — Charlotte Bronte
What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death? — James Clavell
- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.… — Candace Bushnell
Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate. — Wilfred Owen
All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she… — John Green
What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none. — Anne Rice
We all use the future to escape the present. — John Green
Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them. — Noel Fielding
You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined to become one… — Ron Currie Jr.
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd. — Algernon Blackwood
Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out… — Norman Maclean

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