My Only Escape Quotes

#1. This was my safe space; my only escape from the world.

Tahereh Mafi

#2. Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.

Teresa Mummert

#3. If your house is on fire and you can only escape with your life and one thing, what one thing would you take out of your house? I got to think my laptop is the one thing that is totally irreplaceable. Either that or my son. Laptop. I'll go laptop.

Anthony Jeselnik

#4. I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car.

Michael Franti

#5. He announced to me that as soon as ever he grows up, he will get married, just because he wants to have little children, whom he likes. 'There is only one trouble,' he added, very seriously, 'I shall have to live all the time with my wife; there is no escape.

Aimee Dostoyevsky

#6. I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.

Karen Cushman

#7. But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the 'destiny' my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.

Claudia Gray

#8. My approach with social media is to interact with the readers I already have. I do it mostly to procrastinate from my writing. It's an escape. It's the only socializing I get outside of my wife, and she gets sick of me.

Hugh Howey

#9. Already, this little-walked gigantic trail through my country's Western wilderness held in my mind the promise of escape from myself, the liberation only a huge transformation could grant me. This walk would be my salvation. It had to be.

Aspen Matis

#10. I relied on what I wrote to build a bridge which could not be cut down. It was my own self in which I trusted, not seeing self as that last cell from which escape can only come too late.

Anna Kavan

#11. The hardest lesson I had learnt upon my travels was patience. There are times when every muscle, every nerve, screams for movement, when every instinct urges escape. But the instinct to fly is not always a sound one. There are occasions when only stillness can save you.

Deanna Raybourn

#12. I've got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.

Beatrice Sparks

#13. This silent call you make, A silence so loud I fear the world knows it's meaning If you fill every corner of a room Where can I look? If I close my eyes the silence becomes louder! There is no escape from you The only way out is in

Spike Milligan

#14. I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing is turning inside, anyway. I only use drugs for construction. It's like one of my architectural tools.

Patti Smith

#15. The tides here are too rough. I sink here, happy only when I hoard my little blue sleeping pills, stash the blades of my razor. I accumulate a drawer of drop-out devices, so by December I can escape to a Merry Christmas.

Stephanie Hemphill

#16. I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality ... I need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light.

Joan Miro

#17. Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

Ellen Hopkins

#18. I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

Zhang Ziyi

#19. There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect self, and even if I kept moving, she would dog me all the way around the world, forever.

Kristin Kimball

#20. I hardly have any names on my dance card," Emma said, slightly despairing. This was not how she imagined her debut.
"There are just four names on mine," Olivia said. "But I think the gentlemen only agreed to escape my mother. I really can't blame them.

Maya Rodale

#21. Violence is the only way to achieve freedom, it seems. I wouldn't have thought so before all of this. My escape plan was a more peaceful one, but I know now that it wouldn't have been successful.

Lauren DeStefano

#22. I close my eyes. An image flashes - emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us.
Instead life has only grown harder.

Lauren Oliver

#23. My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.

Ang Lee

#24. So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation.

Sherman Alexie

#25. Alas, I have begun my loneliest walk. But whoever is of my kind, cannot escape such an hour, the hour which says to him, 'Only now are you going your way to greatness. Peak and abyss, they are now joined together, for all things are baptized in a well of eternity, and lie beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. Sometimes my life here felt like a cage where I could never escape the pain. At other times it felt like the only firm ground on earth

Jennifer Castle

#27. I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !

Erica Jong

#28. When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Comte De Lautreamont

#29. For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.

Christina Aguilera

#30. Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.

Cynthia Voigt

#31. Something broke in me that night. It has stopped being a game and is now a reality. The Burn List is the only way I know to escape my past, my means to forget.
It's simple; I want revenge.

Calia Read

#32. Aster was eager for any kind of
Chance. She had only wanted a chance. A way out, a greater story than the one that had been written for her, just like I had wanted. Tell my bapa I tried, Miz. A chance to control her own destiny. But for her, escape was impossible.

Mary E. Pearson

#33. Would she flee if she knew the thoughts I kept in my mind? My hands went to her flat stomach. My fingers sank in the soft tan flesh around her waist. One day her belly would be full of my children and her mind would only be focused on me.

Kenya Wright

#34. I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.

Fred W. Friendly