Escape Quote by James Franco

“Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself.”

— Marcel Proust

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

— Donald Barthelme

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

— Iris Apfel

Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.

— Byron Katie

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

— Mohsin Hamid

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

— Fay Weldon

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

— Dave Matthews

Often its the deepest pain that empowers you to grow into highest self

— Insane & Insomniac

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The self cannot be self without other selves.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

One can run away from anything but oneself.

— Stefan Zweig

There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

— Aaliyah