Top 100 No Escape Quotes
#1. No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot
#2. Yes. He argued that we are the gods, that we create our own destiny. That what we are determines what will become of us. In a peasantlike vernacular, we all paint ourselves into corners from which there is no escape simply by being ourselves and interacting with other selves.
Glen Cook
#3. Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.
Michel De Montaigne
#4. There is always a countermove, always an escape or way through. No one said it would be easy and of course the stakes are high, but the path is there for those ready to take it.
Ryan Holiday
#6. Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.
Marion Dudley Cran
#7. There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that.
Mekhi Phifer
#8. I had never traveled alone before and I discovered that I liked it. No one in the world knew where I was, no one had the ability to reach me. It was like being dead, my escape allowing me to taste that tremendous power my mother possessed forever.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#9. Truth, terrible truth! It is like an ancient curse, from which there is no escape. The truth will drive one mad. Yet without it, how can one make sense of life's madness?
Maryrose Wood
#10. She was emotionally retarded having no sense of humour, cold and no people skills. She was like her mother was obsessed by appearances and wealth and longed to get married to escape from home.
Annette J. Dunlea
#11. Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward.
Bill Shankly
#12. There is always that dream of escape, but there is no place to escape to, you just run into yourself.
Willy Vlautin
#13. I'm so despondent about everything. Everything I try goes totally wrong. There's no escape from this hole here. I feel drained. So far, I still haven't found a real purpose in life. Sometimes, I'm afraid to get out of bed in the morning. There's nothing to get up for.
Joseph Goebbels
#14. That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
Don DeLillo
#15. Truth will keep on telling the truth
Lies will lie to be more uncouth
No more rainbow after the storm
Nowhere to escape leaving the norm
Munia Khan
#16. Remember, if confronted by a librarian while looking for a book to check out, do not attempt to escape by climbing a tree. There are no trees in the library and the precious moments it will take you to look around and realize this will allow the librarian to strike. Don't become a statistic.
Joseph Fink
#17. Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.
George Orwell
#18. People who escape familiar groups and make contact with unfamiliar ones becomes smarter and more creative. They have what Ronald Burt calls a "vision advantage." They are no longer captives of their cultures.
Grant McCracken
#19. No matter who we are, where we live or our status in life, we would never really be able to escape the demands and supplies of life.
Sunday Adelaja
#20. You've gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you're studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.
Jennifer Echols
#21. The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
Christopher Hitchens
#22. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed. Was there no escape
anywhere
for anyone? It was worth murdering a world.
Graham Greene
#23. An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does
Lemony Snicket
#24. In that moment there was no pretense between them, no lingering vestige of reserve or attempt to escape, no denial. It was final and complete.
Anne Perry
#25. We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
Pericles
#26. Such people are trapped in their own hall of mirrors, and for them there is no escape. They can never know whether they are wrong, even when they are. No evidence, no logic, no reason will ever get through to them.
Richard Carrier
#27. I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
Zoe Lister-Jones
#28. This, however, is sure: nothing is really lost. Any influence for good, no matter how ephemeral, makes its mark: it helps to leaven the loaf of evil: it leaves a loophole, albeit a small one, for a future escape from bondage.
Horace Annesley Vachell
#29. How bold we are. We shy from a flame that licks the tip of our finger for a fraction of a second, and from which we are allowed the luxury of escape. But most of humankind flaunt their disobedience in the face of an eternal fire that engulfs all, and from which there is no escape. Ever.
Laurence B. Brown
#30. Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law
Ferdinand De Saussure
#31. It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.
Joseph Conrad
#32. No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it - no place to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather.
George MacDonald
#33. When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#34. It is no ipso facto escape from dogma to assert (knowingly or not) non-dogmatism dogmatically.
It is no ipso facto escape from credulity to believe in one's own scepticism.
Nanamoli Thera
#35. Let's invent "do nothing" days, where there is no plan and no structured play. Let's ensure that kids get bored every so often and have to use their imaginations to invent ways to escape.
Richard Watson
#36. I always dream of some great unexpected infidelity. But I have not yet been able to escape my bigamous state."
Milan Kundera, "The Paris Review" summer 1984 no. 92
Milan Kundera
#37. The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape
Rem Koolhaas
#38. Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.
Sun Tzu
#39. I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.
John Bunyan
#40. There is no particular merit in fighting for your own skin when you know that it is fight or die, but there is considerable merit in being prepared to die when you know you can escape quite easily. Put at its lowest, there is a certain stubborn foolhardy heroism in that.
M.M. Kaye
#41. My brother once showed me a piece of quartz that contained, he said, some trapped water older than all the seas in our world. He held it up to my ear. 'Listen,' he said, 'life and no escape.
Anne Carson
#43. He also knew that there is no escape from power like his, no exit, no way out of the predicament that being always on creates; there is only death.
Kanan Makiya
#44. In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
Lou Holtz
#45. When Jack just rescued her Ma's, just succeeded doing the Great Escape:
"Want to go to Bed."
"They'll find us somewhere to sleep in a little while."
"No. Bed."
"You mean in Room?" Ma's pulled back, she's staring in my eyes.
"Yeah. I've seen the world and I'm tired now.
Emma Donoghue
#46. The worldly vision is filled with infinite infatuations and attachments and no one can escape from it; [hence] there is no alternative other than staying in Gnani's feet [surrendering to the enlightened one is the only alternative].
Dada Bhagwan
#47. No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
Clarence Darrow
#48. No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.
Art Buchwald
#49. How could he relax his guard when beams of neurotic energy, like searchlights weaving about a prison compound, allowed no thought to escape, no remark to go unchecked.
Edward St. Aubyn
#50. In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn.
James Thurber
#51. It was his own soul he was exploring, the one territory from which there was no escape, the one enemy which must always be faced, sooner or later, more certain than anything else in life or death.
Anne Perry
#52. I expected no miracles; I wasn't young enough for dreams; I knew in my bones that I couldn't escape my troubles by changing the view from my window.
Steven Millhauser
#53. There's no real escape from the work, but in some ways, if you're as obsessive as I am, it's a sweet little thing we've figured out. You bring your work home and you work 24 hours a day, but it's good.
Simon Helberg
#54. It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.
Marian Wright Edelman
#56. Steven stared at the detective's gun and realized there was no escape. He had an emotional meltdown, letting his true feelings spill out of him.
Amelia Morgan
#57. There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.
Stephen Hawking
#58. But at the time I didn't know that it would take more to escape black-and-white thinking than just no longer attending your parents' church. The church had provided me a sorting system, which was now ingrained. It had containers into which every person and idea and event was to be placed.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#59. CSV (fields separated by commas, double quotes used to escape commas, no continuation lines) is rarely found under Unix.
Eric S. Raymond
#60. Her shortsightedness had almost brought the entire multiverse to oblivion. That Admiral Janeway had chosen to die so her younger self and crew might live, but had that been a noble sacrifice? Or was it her only escape from pain she no longer knew how to endure? How
Kirsten Beyer
#61. This man suffered too much. He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. When I had a chance I begged him to try and leave while there was time; I offered to go back with him. And he would say yes, and then he would remain...
Joseph Conrad
#62. An event horizon is also called the point of no return. In a sense of general relativity, it's the point at which the gravitational pull becomes so great escape is impossible. Some theorize quantum gravity effects become significant in the vicinity of such an occurrence.
Karen Marie Moning
#63. People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing and justify the fact that you didn't do a very good job.
Frederick Lenz
#64. Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
Alyssa Milano
#65. Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.
James Dobson
#66. Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.
Junot Diaz
#67. I had often tried to get out of your room, having travelled all the way there. It frightened me to be caught in a trap which was becoming painful, and one from which I had no escape. (23)
Sarah Ferguson
#68. A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. Organic chemistry just now is enough to drive one mad. It gives me the impression of a primeval forest full of the most remarkable things, a monstrous and boundless thicket, with no way of escape, into which one may well dread to enter.
Friedrich Wohler
#70. It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.
Ruskin Bond
#71. There was no escape from being unwanted. And that was the truth that struck at me the most deeply.
Julianne Donaldson
#72. This side of Nirvana, there is no such escape for any of us as far as I know.
Frederick Buechner
#73. Idealism is just an escape from reality. There is no utopia.
Libba Bray
#74. ...he understood there was no way to escape Time, and that this moment he had been granted to watch as a child, which had never ceased to obsess him, was the moment of his own death.
Chris Marker
#75. There's one last reason why none of us ever tries to escape. There are a few of us who just don't have anywhere else to go.
Jason Medina
#76. I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.
Hafez
#77. She knew she couldn't escape unscathed, and the trauma would take her a long time to get past. And she might never fully heal mentally.
There was no denying the fact, though, that everything had changed for her. To know what to expect wasn't the same as actually living it.
Cheyenne McCray
#78. I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#79. There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Frank Herbert
#80. There's no escape, flashes may blind me, can't pull away I'll get sucked back in. It's my life, where I must stand, it's who I am.
Paul Travis
#81. Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.
P.D. James
#82. Nothing else need be said between them. No words or platitudes uttered. No fears or sins confessed. He saw absolution in her eyes. Understanding. Acceptance.
And still he gave her a moment. A warning. A chance to escape.
Because once he got his hands on her, there would be no stopping him.
Kerrigan Byrne
#83. I managed to convince myself that I'd left Bulgaria behind for good. I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world is my oyster. Where are you from? they ask. Does it matter? I answer.
But it does.
Kapka Kassabova
#85. Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is. I had never seen eyes filled with so much sadness.
A.B. Shepherd
#86. He strokes my hair and tells me stories and tucks me close like he's afraid I'll disappear. He paints pictures of people and places until I'm drowning in a drug of dreams to escape a world with no refuge, no relief, no release but his reassurances in my ear.
Tahereh Mafi
#87. The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.
Joshua Ferris
#88. In their perverted way all humanity imitates you. Yet they put themselves at a distance from you and exalt themselves against you. But even by thus imitating you they acknowledge that you are the creator of all nature and so concede that there is no palace where one can entirely escape from you.
Augustine Of Hippo
#89. Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided ... No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
Ulysses S. Grant
#90. As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.
Jack Kornfield
#91. There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.
L.M. Montgomery
#92. I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
Henri Bergson
#93. There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.
H.P. Lovecraft
#94. There could be no romance in the terrible possibility that Gretel Nissenbaum had fled on foot, alone, not to her family but simply to escape from her life; in what exigency of need, what despondency of spirit, no name might be given it by any who have not experienced it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#95. What ease our seemingly entrenched lives might be altered were we simply to walk down a corridor and onto a craft that in a few hours would land us in a place of which we had no memories and where no one knew our name.
Alain De Botton
#96. I was asked a series of questions.
What did you see? Why are there no files in the video archives? How did the assassin escape?
I lied every time.
Julio Alexi Genao
#97. Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
Frank Moore Colby
#98. It's only physical, she reminded herself. Just lust. Some kind of twisted, mutual escape valve. And those physical things, with no love or respect or loyalty to bind and preserve them, had a short shelf life. They were limited-time offers. Three months, tops.
Jess Riley
#99. Sometimes; I am caught in my building of emotions -
but my prison has, curiously, no bars -
and so I think, that escape, is possible at any time.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#100. Live or dead, no creature might escape the unfolding of its own actions. He
R.A. MacAvoy
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