Quotes with escape

  • However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
  • Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
  • That's why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
  • Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.
  • I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
  • The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
  • I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.
  • The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
  • Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
  • No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
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  • St. John of the Cross He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Marguerite Duras A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Anais Nin A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked…
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Italo Calvino The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Roland Barthes There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Booker T. Washington Wherever our life touches yours, we help or hinder... wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker.... There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Albert Einstein A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Lucius Accius A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
    Lucius Accius
    Roman tragic poet and literary (170 - 86)
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  • Joseph Addison A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • I Ching A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson All the best stories in the world 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.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • W. H. Auden Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • William Hazlitt Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Cesare Pavese At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Brett Ratner At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • David Mitchell Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
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    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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