Escape Quotes
1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors
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My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me any more. It…
— Neil Gaiman
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From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at…
— Sebastian Faulks
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The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which…
— Marcel Proust
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I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things…
— Pete Doherty
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The bluejacket girlie rode like a clan warrior, but there was no way she'd escape. It was a private life-and-death contest that had nothing to…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
— Don DeLillo
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To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen…
— Umberto Eco
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I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a…
— Alexander Gordon Smith
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The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and…
— David Ogilvy
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I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon
— Karen Chance
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Is it any wonder the power this man held over me - this man who did not run from his demons like most of us…
— Rick Yancey
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I never see these things coming. They happen too fast. One second you're proposing an escape plan and the next...
— Suzanne Collins
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The saints should always remember that God sees not as man sees; that he does not willingly afflict his children, and that if he requires…
— George Q. Cannon
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Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?
— Haruki Murakami
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Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins.
— Tim LaHaye
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If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.…
— Charles Spurgeon
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There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from…
— Thomas Mann
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The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not…
— Alan Watts
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To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is…
— Alan Watts
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If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the…
— Ann Brashares
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During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to…
— Tahir Shah
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So,” Royce said, “you want us to escape from this prison, kidnap the king, cross the countryside with him in tow while dodging soldiers who…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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Additionally, Liesl and Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most basic--not a paycheck, certainly; not…
— Lauren Oliver
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There's no district 12 to escape from now, no Peacekeepers to trick, no hungry mouths to feed. The Capitol took away all of that, and…
— Suzanne Collins
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