Escape Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• We drive so far to get away. Never look back. We don’t care about nothin’ else. A sweet escape. Gotta break free like a shooting star. Let the skyline guide us.

  

  Alesso
  • Back
  • Escape
  • Far

• 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

• 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

• Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive for more and more pleasure or try to contain it. If we suffer pain we want to escape it. We experience dissatisfaction all the time. All activities contain dissatisfaction or pain, continuously.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Why
  • Game

• Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Chance
  • Movies
  • Cell Phones

• I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was just playing music for the fun of it and writing songs. That was kind of my escape, you know, from the humdrum of the world.

  

  John Prine
  • World
  • Music
  • Kind

• You can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Escape
  • Responsibilities
  • Evading

• It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Earth
  • Despised
  • Poisons

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

  

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

• No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Death
  • Happiness
  • Escape

• 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

• 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

• 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

• No one can escape his destiny.

  

  Plato
  • Destiny
  • Escape

• No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

  

  Homer
  • Time
  • Born
  • Brave

• He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Know
  • Wanted
  • Escape

• When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening and an escape My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness I found Your forgiveness to be greater

  

  Al-Shafi‘i
  • Hope
  • Forgiveness
  • My Heart

• Being a rock star is really a 24-hour-a-day job, and you really can't escape it.

  

  Kim Thayil Soundgarden
  • Job
  • Escape
  • Rock Star

• Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Change
  • Present
  • Escape

• A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Movie
  • Miss
  • Massage

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