Escape Quotes

• You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • September
  • Cannot
  • Come From

• I was taken in the middle of the river as I was crossing at a shallow place to make my escape.

  

  Sacagawea
  • Taken
  • River
  • Crossing

• I don't think you can escape the environment we live in now.

  

  Donald Fagen Steely Dan
  • Environment
  • Escape
  • Don't Think

• If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Feeling
  • Down
  • Escape

• In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Reason
  • Suffer
  • Dangers

• We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

  

  Aristotle
  • Practice
  • Arguing
  • Solve

• Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind. Losing all their independence as divine works, things gravitate henceforth round human thought, whence their laws are derived. What wonder, after that, is if criticism had resulted in the virtual disappearance of all metaphysics? As soon as the universe is reduced to the laws of mind, man, now become creator, has no longer any means of rising above himself. Legislator of a world to which his own mind has given birth, he is henceforth the prisoner of his own work, and he will never escape from it anymore. If my thought is the condition of being, never by thought shall I be able to transcend the limits of my being and my capacity for the infinite will never be satisfied.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Criticism
  • Laws
  • Divine

• The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

  

  Euripides
  • Pain
  • Tongue
  • Secure

• Unlike Europeans who immigrated to this land to escape from tyranny, Africans came in chains to serve a nation of tyrants.

  

  James Hal Cone
  • Tyranny
  • Europeans
  • Immigrated

• For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Existence
  • Deal
  • Escape

• He also knew that there is no escape from power like his, no exit, no way out of the predicament that being always on creates; there is only death.

  

  Kanan Makiya
  • Power
  • Death
  • Escape

• It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Escape
  • Consequences
  • Seek

• I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Escape
  • Episodes
  • Mayberry

• To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew... | Hooded by a dark sense of destination... | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Road
  • Travel
  • Bird

• Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Power
  • Alone
  • Creatures

• If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Architecture
  • Escape
  • Temple

• I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Music
  • Business
  • Escapism

• There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape; it takes you away from the unhappiness or torture of where you are and makes you feel less alienated-you believe there is a place you fit in somewhere else. The other is a sort of transcendent, spiritual feeling in the purity of music.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Music
  • Torture
  • Purity

• Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Clever
  • Pot

• Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Impossible
  • Escape
  • Recurs

• If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Enjoyment
  • Preach
  • Charkha

• Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

  

  Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Want
  • Stage

• Until you have, once at least, faced everything you know - the whole universe - with utter giving in, and let all that is 'not you' flow over and engulf you, there can be no lasting sense of security. Only by being prepared to accept annihilation can one escape from that spiritual 'abiding alone' which is in fact the truly death-like state.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Death
  • Giving
  • Alone

• To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Holy
  • Consists

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