Escaping Quotes
191 quotes by 175 authors
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Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a…
— D. H. Lawrence
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One of them hissed-not the hiss of a cat, a long, steady tone-more like the hiss of air escaping the rubber raft that is all…
— Christopher Moore
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And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day…
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple…
— William George Jordan
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Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Flickering lights anonymous doors my heart escaping in drips i'm still waking up but she's still sleeping this ICU is hotel for the dead
— Maggie Stiefvater
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There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver…
— Kami Garcia
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sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
— Michael Chabon
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Say something in Mandarin,†said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and consonants run together, his…
— Cassandra Clare
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Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt…
— Gayle Forman
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And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in a country on…
— Eric Weiner
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him...
— Abraham Verghese
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Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and…
— Paul Auster
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There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.
— Bella Pollen
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Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows…
— Terry Pratchett
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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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The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.
— Rachel Joyce
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There was no escaping what he had realized as he fought for warmth in the night. With or without him,the moon and the wind would…
— Rachel Joyce
Who Wrote These Escaping Quotes
175 authors contributed a total of 191 Escaping Quotes, led by these top contributors: