Top 1200 Great Escape Quotes & Sayings

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next.

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.

When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.

So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not escape the fact. It is there and you cannot escape it! It has come into existence with you.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.

Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.

I think fashion is intensely personal. It should be. It should give a woman a creative outlet, it should give her a little bit of an escape, and it should give her a little bit of individuality that she can add to her life. I don't mean redoing your entire closet. I mean that a great shoe or a great handbag or a great top or a great coat or jacket can change everything.

What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind.

If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.

I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And I think that place, more than anything, provides that escape quickly, if an author is engaged with the place.

One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.

My favorite movie out of the old movies was 'Escape to Witch Mountain.' We were working with horses and bears, and when you have a great friend like Ike and a great director... it was a great experience.

When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.'

I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

We are women. We are attractive. We have great bodies. You can't escape that fact, so why not use it to our advantage? If sex sells, I'm all for it.

We have compassion because of the incredible pain and suffering which we as unenlightened beings cause to ourselves and all others through our ignorance. This is why we're trying to get out. This is why the bodhisattva has meaning. Because we're saying, no we won't get out, we won't escape until we've helped all other beings to escape, but most other beings don't even want to escape. They don't even know that there is an escape, and it's hard, so it's going to take an awfully long time.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

Everybody wants to escape, but our escape is the real deal. If we're scary, that's because we're taking you away from you being fed what you want to hear.

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

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

I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

The Great Guitar Escape is built around world-class seminars, concerts and jam sessions. It's a chance to learn and be inspired by some truly amazing musicians. And it's just a great way for everyone to hang out together in a beautiful place.

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

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

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.

It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

I want kids to be able to escape failing schools that trap them. And it's an unequal trapping of children. The most affluent find a way to escape. They move to a great suburban district or send their kid to a private school. The people who are trapped in the worst schools that have been terrible often for half a century? Those are the poorest kids.

I've seen 'Stalker' more times than any film except 'The Great Escape.'

We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

A terrible cold world of ice and death had replaced the living world we had always known. Outside there was only the deadly cold, the frozen vacuum of an ice age, life reduced to mineral crystals. [. . .] I drove at great speed, as if escaping, pretending we could escape. Although I knew there was no escape from the ice, from the ever-diminishing remnant of time that encapsuled us.

Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.

Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

There is always that dream of escape, but there is no place to escape to, you just run into yourself.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.