Escape Quotes - page 2

He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison. (Catherine Fisher)
I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot. View quote
Nadia Comaneci
Faith - what is this emotion but a desperate attempt to escape from mind-burning fear? View quote
David Zindell
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction. View quote
Stephen L. Carter
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. View quote
Antonin Artaud
If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth. View quote
Emil Cioran
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 the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape? View quote
Geraldine Chaplin
While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. (Cyril Connolly)
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. View quote
Dean Koontz
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. View quote
Julian Barnes
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. View quote
Don DeLillo
What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death? View quote
James Clavell
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. View quote
Douglas Coupland
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. View quote
William Kingdon Clifford
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided.... No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. (Eric Hoffer)
All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. View quote
A. C. Benson
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. View quote
Marcel Proust
It is a pity that we cannot escape from life when we are young. View quote
Mark Twain
We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves. View quote
Kurt Cobain