Escape Quotes

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

With cyber bullying, you can't escape from it. Fifty-four percent of the kids who were bullied said they didn't know who was bullying them on the Internet.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

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.

Netball is an outlet - an escape from the humdrum. There's nothing gives me such a kick. Well, nothing except vodka.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

The stories were so sad, terrifying and tragic: A Thai woman who had helped us escape had turned around to get her children, but they had been swept out to sea; an American-Irish couple who had spent the past 15 years of their lives on their sailboat had watched their boat and all their belongings get smashed.

The desire to escape normal life and do something different that engages the mind, body and spirit is in all of us.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy.

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.