Escape Quotes

• A painter is someone who can't use words. His only escape is to be a seer.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Words
  • Escape
  • Painter

• If it were possible to escape from lonely experiences for a moment and stand back from the tree one would see the myriad bright worlds sparkling upon it. But only the greatest could do that. For all but the greatest their own experience was a prison house until the ending of the days. But one could know how bright was the light that carried all souls back to the light when for a moment one entered the world of a child.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Child
  • Experiences
  • Prison

• Someone once said to me,said Marguerite, that our home, our special country, is where we find liberation. I suppose she meant that it is where our souls find it easiest to escape from self, and it seem to me that it is that way with us when what is about us echoes the best that we are.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Home
  • Suppose
  • Liberation

• You are here to experience life, not to escape from it.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Experience
  • Escape

• Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Politics
  • Capitalism
  • Thinkers

• I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.

  

  Beatrice Sparks
  • Sleep
  • Escape

• When you come back from your escape. Then I could follow you to hell.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Hell
  • Escape

• The ballpoint pen was invented by László Bíró, a Hungarian journalist who fled to Argentina to escape the German occupation of Europe. In 1943 he licensed his invention to the RAF, and the first ballpoint pens were manufactured in Reading, England, by the Miles aircraft manufacturer, to supply pilots with a lasting ink supply!

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • German
  • England
  • Journalist

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