Escaped Quotes

#1. His small fragile ship had barely escaped a disaster; now it enters a region of new storms and uncharted depths through which even the best led ... cannot find a guide. He must find his own way and be his own saviour.

Hermann Hesse

#2. To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

George Gissing

#3. Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Friedrich Schiller

#4. A long sigh escaped him before he said, "We're in something of a predicament, love."
I turned my face to look up at him. "We are?"
Reaching, out, he stroked my cheek with the back of his hand. "Yes, my darling, because I very much want to fuck you.

L. H. Cosway

#5. Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

Bob Woodward

#6. Are you afraid a demon has escaped Hell in order to descend upon the Venetians?"

"I think there are a few who'd deserve it, but I'm also a man of science, and I believe that we all carry our own private infernos inside ourselves."

-Conversation between Majid and Mathias

Riccardo Bruni

#7. The Vicar's talk was not always inspiriting: he had escaped being a Pharisee, but he had not escaped that low estimate of possibilities which we rather hastily arrive at as an inference from our own failure.

George Eliot

#8. Julesa: "Are you a fool? Father will have you hung if he realises you've escaped."
Never: "Everyone dies from something.

Ashley Capes

#9. History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

F. M. Powicke

#10. When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.

Sharon Olds

#11. But death is not easily escaped from by anyone: all of us with souls, earth-dwellers and children of men, must make our way to a destination already ordained where the body, after the banqueting, sleeps on its deathbed.

Seamus Heaney

#12. Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail.

Donald Barthelme

#13. There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.

Arthur Helps

#14. Have I gotten everything right? I doubt it. Not even the great Daniel Defoe did that; in Robinson Crusoe, our hero strips naked, swims out to the ship he has recently escaped....and then fills up his pockets with items he will need to stay alive on his desert island.

Stephen King

#15. No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

Agnes Repplier

#16. The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

Michael Chabon

#17. Just give us until Rome."
The tears escaped.
"Just give us until Rome, Melanie.

T.M. Williams

#18. Born a slave, Harriet Tubman was determined not to remain one. She escaped from her owners in Maryland on the Underground Railroad in 1849 and then fearlessly returned thirteen times to help guide family members and others to freedom as the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

#19. There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.

Bill Hybels

#20. Fucking hell! The lioness won. She got a burst of speed and let the bones crack, muscles tense, and skin turned to fur so flawlessly, she didn't slow. Now she ran on all fours. A loud hiss escaped from her lioness. Pissed wasn't even the word at this point. Andi wanted blood. Someone

Milly Taiden

#21. Running my fastest not from my past. Running from those who have hurt me in it. And, they can't catch me anymore. I escaped from the land of make believe.

Jill Telford

#22. Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

Jose Saramago

#23. The escaped polar bear owned Central Park. Until we killed it.

Chris Weitz

#24. Both wet to the bone, exhausted, and one unconscious, Kedean thought, all in all, they were faring rather well for two unarmed men who'd only just an hour ago escaped a fleet of fairy pirates into frigid water in unknown territory.

Anihyr Moonstar

#25. It was terrible of you," Shanna pouted, but her eyes danced as they turned askance to meet his. "I could have left, you know. I was that angry."
"I would have followed you," Ruark assured with a flash of white teeth. "You have my heart and my baby. You would not have escaped.

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

#26. It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness.
And then the escape was not complete. Part of her knew, always.

Elizabeth Lowell

#27. I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

Jack Henry Abbott

#28. It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity, that i have never written a single word other than for a selfish purpose; but at, each time, the work betrayed me and escaped from me

Witold Gombrowicz

#29. Then how about one kiss?' he said with a sexy grin. 'Something to remember me by?'
'I'll give you something to remember me by,' I said. The back of my head.' I pushed past him and escaped through the door to freedom.

Ellen Schreiber

#30. Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#31. How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark.

Dana Gioia

#32. Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

Brian Bosworth

#33. Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

Seneca The Younger

#34. It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through my oppressive teenage years and when I turned 18 I escaped. Like Aslan I was finally free.

Christina Ricci

#35. Was it really this easy, once you escaped, to just not care?

Sarah Dessen

#36. I have written this because it may have escaped the notice of many who have admired her [Marie Tempest] brilliant performances that they are due not only to her natural gifts ... but to patience, assiduity, industry and discipline. Without these it is impossible to excel in any of the arts.

W. Somerset Maugham

#37. It hasn't escaped my notice that you only compliment me when you're intoxicated.

Jeaniene Frost

#38. Stories were so easy to control. Lady Lynx escaped because Zenobia created an escapable situation, and if anything unexpected happened to her characters, Zenobia had a clever plan to get them out of their new fix.

Meljean Brook

#39. I've always liked things I can just trance out to. Because what that means is that you've escaped the chafe of time. Often when you're bored, it's that friction between you and time.

Geoff Dyer

#40. I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

Evel Knievel

#41. That's because we were together for two years and she led me on a treacherous journey through bitchy, across frigid, and into the land of cheating psycho. I barely escaped with my life. It required a week of solid moping just so my balls could grow back.

S.E. Culpepper

#42. His name escaped her lips as a whisper: Balthazar

Claudia Gray

#43. I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#44. Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

Aulus Gellius

#45. 3. When making your dramatic exit, crawl along one of the web strands that extend outward from the center. Avoid the webbing that runs in concentric circles, as it's the stickiest.
4. Once you've escaped, say something snarky to the queen, like "Sorry I couldn't stick around.

Andrew Shaffer

#46. They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps.

Charles Bukowski

#47. There is nothing more terrible than a spurned faery queen, particularly if you defy her a second time. I escaped the Winter Court with my life intact, but just barely, and I won't be returning anytime soon. My loyalty - and my heart - belongs to another queen now.

Julie Kagawa

#48. Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

Nick Tosches

#49. My butt cheeks clenched so tightly that not even light could have escaped.

David Wong

#50. But then the memory - not yet of the place in which I was, but of various other places where I had lived and might now very possibly be - would come like a rope let down from heaven to draw me up out of the abyss of not-being, from which I could never have escaped by myself:

Marcel Proust

#51. I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s.

Hugh Hefner

#52. How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?

Maria Konnikova

#53. Corset,' Mrs. Erskine? I don't understand." Because she was trussed up in one herself, she couldn't comprehend how Ariah had escaped hers.

Joyce Carol Oates

#54. I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I'd left them locked up behind an electric fence. But the shadows were alive, and they had chased me here.

Alexandra Bracken

#55. A small whimper escaped her throat, then she desperately pulled her eyes away.

Steven Erikson

#56. Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence ... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

Franz Kafka

#57. The thing I felt most clearly, when the first corner was turned, was that I had escaped. Obscurer, but no less strong, was the feeling that she loved me more than I loved her, and that consequently I had in some indefinable way won.

John Fowles

#58. Centurion! Would you like to be a cavalryman one last time? There are Venicones who escaped when your line was broken to be hunted down, and Tribune Licinius has ordered me to take the best men available in their pursuit. Leave this hairy gentleman to watch the fun, and join us in the hunt!

Anthony Riches

#59. Taylor and I both pride ourselves on having escaped that collapsed circus tent of epistemology - those acres of canvas under which many of our colleagues still thrash aimlessly about.

Richard M. Rorty

#60. And that fox escaped with his tail between his legs, with all of the hens chasing after him

Isabel Allende

#61. "A Tale of Three Cities" is a tribute to our parents' generation, who escaped from city to city in search of their loved ones and in search of a place to build a better home. The story is set during the turbulent war years in China in the '40s and '50s.

Mabel Cheung

#62. Husbands were all too often the back door by which secrets escaped into the outside world.

Stephen King

#63. Nay, the guest who has escaped from the roof, will think twice before he comes back in by the door.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#64. Are you some sort of pervert?"
The grey eyes turn from terrified to indignant. "Do you mind keeping your voice down, I have a perfectly innocent explanation." He unravels himself and straightens up, towering over us like some freshly escaped genie.

Susan Lodge

#65. Gene Simmons after three months in the Gobi Desert? The Hunchback of Notre Dame following corrective surgery? An escaped Muppet? The drummer from Ratt?

Greg Sestero

#66. The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#67. Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

Samuel Johnson

#68. Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again.

Wil S. Hylton

#69. for decades doctors never suspected that this "useless" tissue might actually have a use that escaped their detection. The

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#70. So this is how I will die. Aeduan had never thought it would be flames. A beheading, perhaps. Old age, more likely. But not fire - not since he'd escaped that death all those years ago.

Susan Dennard

#71. I almost forgot how gorgeous Adonis is," she [Ava] said, "We should have made him one of us."
She [Ava] wouldn't have gotten any argument out of me, but a strange sound escaped from James, almost like he was growling. "And have to endure another narcissistic blond running around? No, thank you.

Aimee Carter

#72. The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped
not with wealth or by war,
not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.

Sophocles

#73. No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

Elie Wiesel

#74. Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#75. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

Ryan Ross

#76. I escaped from an interview with that laboratory-loving doctor, Ag O. Nee, just barely by the shadow of my Nosey nose!

I.B. Nosey

#77. Zoos have always fascinated me. What child hasn't wondered what would happen if all the animals escaped from the zoo? Or what would happen if they got caught in an enclosure?

Matthew Reilly

#78. From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

Alberto Manguel

#79. When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Samuel Johnson

#80. A sinister giggle escaped my lips. I'm not much of a giggler unless I've done something sinister.

Penny Reid

#81. Pain is one of those hideous places that once visited you have to fight your way out and even when you think you have escaped you are permanently branded

Anna Todd

#82. As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

Walter Savage Landor

#83. Mother says,
People share
when they know they have escaped hunger.
Shouldn't people share
because there is hunger?

Thanhha Lai

#84. Death is not easily escaped, try it who will; but every living soul among the children of men dwelling upon the earth goeth of necessity unto his destined place, where the body, fast in its narrow bed, sleepeth after feast.

Chauncey Brewster Tinker

#85. I'd always escaped into books, but now reading had become something more. It allowed me to be somewhere else, to feel something else, not just the numbness that overtook my body and made me wonder if I was still alive.

Demitria Lunetta

#86. Only those who have tried to understand and expound the Bible, and especially Paul as a man of his own day, only those who have happily escaped the dangers which threaten us on these two sides (exposition and application), are entitled to cast the first stone.

N. T. Wright

#87. What mental hospital have you escaped from?" She wanted to laugh, but he looked so serious. "Prove you're an alien. Rip off your disguise. Show me your antennae. Where's your union card?

Cheryl Sterling

#88. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent.

Brent Schlender

#89. You said it yourself: you escaped with me to feel the world again. Its beauty.

Richelle Mead

#90. Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#91. Still, he could not think of the mass of Moroccans without contempt. He had no patience with their ignorance and backwardness; if he damned the Europeans with one breath, he was bound to damn the Moroccans with the next. No one escaped but him, and that was because he hated himself most of all.

Paul Bowles

#92. I've been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as an audience member. I escaped by going into the movies and sitting in the movies all day long.

Woody Allen

#93. I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.

Toni Morrison

#94. Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive.

Jane Yolen

#95. I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

James Belushi

#96. I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

Camille Paglia

#97. The pain is such that I refuse to acknowledge it. I feel numb. I have somehow escaped from my body and am now a casual observer to this unfolding tragedy.

E.L. James

#98. I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

Frederick Douglass

#99. I had escaped from my prior partisan mind-set (reject first, ask rhetorical questions later) and began to think about liberal and conservative policies as manifestations of deeply conflicting but equally heartfelt visions of the good society.28

Jonathan Haidt

#100. But we escaped into a stillness within ourselves. We found strenght there.

Ruta Sepetys