Escape Quotes

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. (Horace)
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. View quote
Thomas Mann
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape. View quote
Erich Fromm
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. View quote
George Eliot
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. View quote
William S. Burroughs
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. View quote
T. S. Eliot
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. View quote
Eric Hoffer
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. (Marcus Aurelius)
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. View quote
William Hazlitt
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. View quote
Graham Greene
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream. View quote
Giorgio de Chirico
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape. View quote
Thom Yorke
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. View quote
Emil Cioran
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. View quote
Ani DiFranco
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer. View quote
William Blackstone
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. (Huey P. Newton)
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment. View quote
Henri Bergson
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes. View quote
Clare Boothe Luce
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. View quote
Frank Herbert
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. View quote
Jean Cocteau
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