Escape Quotes

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop ...

His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostr...

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escapi...

By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar y...

Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his ...

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened...

(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid...

The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I ...

Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could ...

He approaches a cockroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this...

It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave...

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries o...

How much better it would be if they weren't so damn understanding--if they kicked me out of the hous...

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in...

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrai...

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should ta...

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they h...

There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Natural...

... suppose if something very terrible had happened, so terrible as to be almost unbearable, one mig...

... what ease our seemingly entrenched lives might be altered were we simply to walk down a corridor...

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the w...

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation ...

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape...

Doing comedy for a living is, in a lot of ways, like a pony and a camel trying to escape from the zo...

I now lived in an invisible place made of my own dwindling breath, and because no one else could see...

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shack...

And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I w...

Anyway, what can one do here? I am seriously thinking of running away and joining the Foreign Legion...

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,...

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional ...

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, anni...

We fell, but we never let the box fall from our hands. Then we ran. We ran blindly, and men and hous...

But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary i...

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to re...

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damag...

He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like anot...

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the ...

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On ...

I sat back down and poured a glass of wine. I left my door open. The moonlight came in with the soun...

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots.

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy...

Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only...

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within....

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Let them run ahead. Then I’ll have good reason for shooting them down. Sharpeville? Attempting to es...

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dre...

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the mag...

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'D...

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape...

You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and M a slave! You move mer...

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he f...

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint ca...

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint c...

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

He was as bold as a lion about it, and 'mightily convinced' not only himself, but everybody that hea...

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from real...

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, ...

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dream...

Escape is a commodity like anything else

Then sudden Felagund there swayingSang in answer a song of staying,Resisting, battling against power...

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into t...

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The small...

I came to this city to escape.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is u...

You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never learn to know the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in ...

If I could only escape, if I could only escape... he murmured the words to himself a dozen times; th...

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attemp...

Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. ...

I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open a...

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum secu...

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horri...

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from ...

I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a p...

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the un...

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

... since I was still, and must for long remain, in that period of life when one has not yet separat...

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the...

It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you...

All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of cours...

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange...

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a p...

He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.

I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a re...

I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction ...

Once upon a time,’ is code for ‘I’m lying to you.’ We experience stories as lies and truth at the sa...