Top 100 Quotes About Escape
#1. It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads.
Theophile Gautier
#3. Moses told me once that you can't escape yourself. You can run, hide, or die. But wherever you go, there you'll be.
Amy Harmon
#4. [On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!
Harriet Martineau
#5. Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other
Veronica Roth
#7. I fell in love with painting. Painting allows me to see things as I want to and not necessarily as they are, it's an escape, a way to preserve thoughts and memories, a way to create hopes and dreams.
- Marina
Pittacus Lore
#8. We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.
Lynda Barry
#10. Did you really think you were going to escape me twice, Bridget?
J. Lynn
#11. O beautiful, to make escape
And leave this world behind.
Had I to stay another day
I'd lose my fucking mind...
Gregory Maguire
#12. Escape.. escape.. escape by God. Never mind hunger pains, discomfort, or any other agony. Let escape become your passion, your one and only obsession until you finally reach home.
Richard Pape
#13. I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car.
Michael Franti
#14. Forgetting everything else, the journey, the compound, escape, the dying man, the many troubles he left behind, the new troubles ahead, his mind wiped itself clean of thought, and the nerves of his body screamed out for input. He was now the predator, and they were his prey.
Steve R. Yeager
#15. We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!
Cate Blanchett
#16. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
#17. It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.
Mark Twain
#18. The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
Jean Racine
#19. Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.
Dave Eggers
#20. No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
William Kingdon Clifford
#21. I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
Frank Gehry
#22. If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.
David R. Brower
#23. In a sense, these people were the vanguard of a well-to-do and well-educated proletariat of the future, boxed up in these expensive apartments with their elegant furniture and intelligent sensibilities, and no possibility of escape.
J.G. Ballard
#24. Huskies get in trouble. Huskies are well-known to be escape artists. Why? Because they were bred to go long-distance. They're not bred to be in the backyard and just look beautiful because they have blue eyes.
Cesar Millan
#25. The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.
Charles B. Rangel
#26. We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.
Kurt Cobain
#27. A baby is born like a bird ready to soar from the mother's lap. The nets of societal rules and regulations puts him in a cage from which he can never escape to create his own new world.
Debasish Mridha
#28. The hardest situation is when the individuals desperate "to cut off your wings" are your closest family members whom you can't escape dealing with.
Sahara Sanders
#29. You have not heard the last of me, Sorceress Perenelle," he sobbed. "You will never escape alive!" Fighting the wave of exhaustion that washed over her, Perenelle turned back to the ladder and pulled herself upward. "That's what everyone says," she murmured. "But I'm still alive,
Michael Scott
#30. When she wanted to escape her life, she read books
Jodi Picoult
#31. A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.
Marguerite Duras
#32. People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline ... The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again.
Jennifer E. Smith
#33. Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the place people want to escape to.
Jenifer Mohammed
#34. I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.
Robert Iler
#35. A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.
J.R. Moehringer
#36. How young he was when he made the surprisingly adult resolution to escape from the unpalatable reality of dreams into the slightly more acceptable illusions of his everyday, walking life!
Salman Rushdie
#38. Rather than being lovers in order to breathe, we are queer in order to escape asphyxia.
Guy Hocquenghem
#39. We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.
Winston Churchill
#40. The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.
Howard Nemerov
#41. You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
Joel Fuhrman
#42. Trust, faith,good, bad ... none of it matters. All you ever do is what you have to do. Follow your disires, fulfill your needs, escape from pain. That's all there is to it.
Kevin Brooks
#43. As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.
Gautama Buddha
#44. 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
#45. A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.
Richard G. Scott
#46. Here I am, wasting away inside
a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is
stay in the story.
If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I'd ask her why on
earth she would ever trade a single second of the world
she's in for the one in which I'm stuck
Jodi Picoult
#47. If you know love, love will be a force that takes every form in your life. You will never be able to escape love for love will be the life that takes every form of life and makes it into love.
Maha Khalid
#48. The Red Door was a part of me and being there was an escape right up until the doors closed. I didn't want it to be over. Not even just for the night. After
Jamie McGuire
#49. It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.
Martin Rees
#50. No man can entirely separate himself in his moral life from his fellows. No matter how vigorous his individuality, he can never escape the consciousness of their standard and their judgment, and he must be swayed by it more or less, even though he denies it for awhile to himself. "Such
Richard Dallas
#51. I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere they know better than you. That's true for music, seeing a painting, watching a movie ... it's all some kind of an escape.
M. Ward
#52. Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.
Etty Hillesum
#53. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.
Rumi
#54. Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#55. Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious.
Francis Quarles
#57. As a child, she'd been a great reader, finding the ultimate escape within the pages of a story. She learned that opening a book was like opening a set of double doors - the next step would take her inside to Neverland or Nod, Sunnybrook Farm or Mulberry Street.
Susan Wiggs
#58. It felt like her brain had become writhing worms inside of her skull, trying to escape through her eye sockets.
S.M. Reine
#59. Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent nothing save in accordance with the laws of the world of the senses; but
it must not therefore be imagined that they desire escape from the region of law.
George MacDonald
#60. 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
#61. Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him.
Steven Erikson
#62. Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?
Haruki Murakami
#63. I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#64. Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#65. The boat from India was a crowded place; all long sea voyages on boats feel crowded. When you are stuck at sea for weeks there is nowhere to escape from people.
C.S. Woolley
#66. You didn't think you could escape us that easily, did you?" a deep menacing voice taunted in my ear. "I told you that you were the one I was looking for.
Brynn Myers
#67. Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape
Ellen Hopkins
#68. Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!
William Julius Mickle
#69. The moon distresses you by silently reminding you of your solitude; you open your eyes wide to escape your loneliness.
Yann Martel
#70. In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled mass of details of fact and falsehood, I should never unravel the truth: and that it would always be so, unless I were to shut her up in prison (but prisoners escape) until the end.
Marcel Proust
#71. If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
William Shakespeare
#72. My first concept was for a game in which you were a prisoner of war and simply had to escape. If you were caught, you'd be brought back to the prison. The idea was for a non-combat game.
Hideo Kojima
#73. There are two way of escaping your poverty,' he offers quietly. 'One, you can use drugs, get drunk - escape. Or you can escape into the world of books; that can be your refuge.
Kennedy Odede
#74. I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.
Julie Walters
#75. People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back.
Eugene J. Martin
#76. I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try to escape from it is to try to live a lie. It is also to cease to be. My acceptance of despair and emptiness constitutes my being; to have the courage to accept despair is to be.
Michael Novak
#77. It is in the stillness of our own self that we can learn those things that escape us in the noise of the market place...
Ainslie Meares
#78. Who says paper worlds
Are an escape from what is real?
As though the lives trapped in their binding
Are not ones that make you feel.
For sometimes our greatest lessons
Come from those with ink for skin,
Who reach beyond the page
To take our hand and pull us in.
Erin Hanson
#79. We must reject the thought that evangelism is to be separated from the importance of standing against evil. We weren't saved just to escape this world and go to Heaven. Transformed people transform the culture while standing boldly against evil.
James Robison
#80. He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion.
A thick round wall of glass.
John Fowles
#81. Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.
Robert Reich
#82. The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.
M.R. Gott
#83. DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that's best for you. Escape into the world of imagination.
Eugene Ionesco
#84. I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced.
Beck
#85. Of creatures who inhabit the darkness, there are two types. Those who revel in it, and those who fight to escape it.
Bella Forrest
#86. Secular humanists of every type may ridicule the Bible, but they cannot escape it; and in their obsession with change, calls for reform, doomsday warnings, and utopian visions, they continue to steal from it.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#87. I need him with an urgency that I cannot escape.
Carrie Ryan
#88. Her emotions were so raw that the hated tears were always just below the surface, waiting to escape at the most inopportune times. She felt like an emotional wreck and had to constantly battle for composure.
Laurann Dohner
#89. Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by who escape death.
Martin Luther
#90. Death stings so harshly, no escape and hiding zone from it.
Euginia Herlihy
#91. Life should be larger than life.
Size is important to escape normalization.
Karl Lagerfeld
#92. Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
Nicolas Chamfort
#93. We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.
James Randi
#94. Maybe you don't like your job. Maybe you didn't get enough sleep. Nobody likes their job; nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life. You know there's no escape and there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
Ani DiFranco
#96. To hear Alice Keppel talk about her escape from France, one would think she had swum the Channel, with her maid between her teeth.
Ronald Greville
#97. The stone will melt in tears,
because I can't remain closed to you forever.
I can't escape without being conquered.
From the blue sky an eye will gaze down,
to summon me in silence.
I will receive death utterly at your feet.
Rabindranath Tagore
#98. I don't know how to feel about those deaths. Guilty, maybe, for not seeing the pain myself. Sad, that some people can't find another way to escape.
Veronica Roth
#99. Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it.
Glen Duncan
#100. It was time to get out of what Coach called "small-stack mentality." I no longer had to play like I was trying to escape the space station before it self-destructed, as the chirpy computer voice counted down.
Colson Whitehead
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