Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.
I really wanted to escape from that little girl. But it seems to me that the picture didn't let me go.
Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.
Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.
Being a rock star is really a 24-hour-a-day job, and you really can't escape it.
The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
When she wanted to escape her life, she read books
There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.
When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.
Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.
I do a lot of yoga. I practice yoga three or four times a week. It's an escape for me.
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.
Life should be larger than life.
Size is important to escape normalization.
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
Becoming an actor let me escape the me that I had in my heart, which was I'm a loser.
If we live according to the law "an eye for an eye...," we will never escape from the spiral of evil.
Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more.
I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.
At the end of the day, human beings are social people. If you have had a bad day, there is no escape when you are in a bubble.
When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it?
He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.
Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.
In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.
My humor was kind of from my dad and all the stuff that we went through, which was a lot of death. My humor was an escape.
I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.
I think music is like little films, and it's nice to listen to music and really escape.
And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.
I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.
You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.
This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.
I kind of expect that the people wouldn't know me. I know I'm tall and I cannot escape that.
Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle.
We sell our dreams and our potential to escape through that buzz.
Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
Delving into history is not an escape for me. I'm like a detective, sniffing for clues with a terrier-like excitement.
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
You know what rumors are like-like a jar full of moths. Once they escape, they're all over the place.
The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way
Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape.
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
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