Escaping Quotes
191 quotes by 175 authors
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
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I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to.…
— Charles Spurgeon
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You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human…
— Dainin Katagiri
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In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state
— Peter L. Berger
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If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.
— Charles Mingus
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There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune;…
— Tacitus
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The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in.
— Alfred Sheinwold
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I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping, who always have…
— John Chaney
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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.
— Clark Moustakas
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The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.
— Fábio Moon
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Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.
— S. N. Goenka
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I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.…
— Ransom Riggs
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I am not saying that you should renounce things, that you should escape from your home and renounce the marketplace. No, don't misunderstand my statement.…
— Rajneesh
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War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.
— Philip Caputo
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Jesus makes you happy in reality. The world makes you happy escaping from reality.
— Jack Hyles
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While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life.…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.
— Oriana Fallaci
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
— Lasse Hallstrom
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Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.
— Hugh MacDiarmid
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I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very…
— Jon Crosby
Who Wrote These Escaping Quotes
175 authors contributed a total of 191 Escaping Quotes, led by these top contributors: