Escape Quotes

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...

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc...

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the ...

Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are crimina...

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anythi...

Here was the opportunity to free herself from all those identical days and nights. pg 30

Unicorns know naught of shame, or need, or doubt, or debt;But mortals, as you may have noticed, take...

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it ...

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it the Christian in order ...

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where th...

The black land slid by and he was going into the country among the hills. For the first time in a do...

He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors.He felt as if he had left the great seance ...

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning...

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died a...

So I pulled the sun screen down and squinted and put the throttle to the floor. And kept on moving w...

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of es...

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursui...

son," Mr. P said. "You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away fro...

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

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — ...

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

Forget it all, I told myself, escape into your mind and your work, into the place where you are only...

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with ou...

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so th...

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...

They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect t...

I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we fo...

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...