Escape Quotes

1931 Escape quotes by 1394 unique authors

we each devise our means of escape from the intolerable. — William Styron
When she wanted to escape her life, she read books — Jodi Picoult
. . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can. — Karen Cushman
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different… — Julian Barnes
For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent.… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such… — Walter Isaacson
Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the… — Alain de Botton
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more… — Anais Nin
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a… — David Foster Wallace
An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does — Daniel Handler
This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the… — Scott Westerfeld
For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible?… — Annie Proulx
Since my fried left me,I've got nothing to do but walking.I walk to forget.I walk,I escape,I get further.My friend will not come back,now I am… — Shel Silverstein
In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences… — Libba Bray
That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it? — John Green
You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought. — Enid Blyton
You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of… — Catherynne M. Valente
You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had… — Georgette Heyer
There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent.… — Alan Watts
There is no escape if love is not there — Elizabeth George Speare
Tried to escape, to block out the fact that I was being eaten alive by arachnids. For some reason the only thing I could replace… — David Wong
You can't escape what you are, but you also should know what you could be. Why you're fighting. — Pittacus Lore
He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and escape plans, and… — Paullina Simons
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is… — P D Ouspensky

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