37 Escaping Quotes

  • The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. – Albert Einstein

 

  • You can escape into a character. – John Candy

 

  • There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident. – Edmond H. Fischer

 

  • You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one. – Vernon Howard

 

  • We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. – Pema Chödrön

 

  • Escapism isn’t good or bad in itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. – Terry Pratchett

 

  • The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

  • Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. – Henry Ward Beecher

 

  • It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil. – Sophocles

 

  • If you escape from people too often, you wind up escaping from yourself. – Marvin Gaye

  • To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. – Elbert Hubbard

 

  • The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection. – Leonardo da Vinci

 

  • Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity. – Paul Auster

 

  • There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes

 

  • There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one’s problems and sorrows with one. – Elizabeth Aston

 

  • One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. – Chris Van Hollen

 

  • We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we’re trying to escape from. – David Lloyd

 

  • 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

 

  • To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. – Aristotle

 

  • You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. – Abraham Lincoln

 

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

 

  • Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. – James Joyce

 

  • No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life. – Ernest Renan

 

  • To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner’s dock is disgrace. – George Eliot

 

  • An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you. – Bryant McGill

 

  • There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory. – Neil Postman

 

  • The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it. – Robert Anthony

 

  • If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own. – Henry Home

 

  • We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. – Raoul Vaneigem

 

  • It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world. – Alice Hoffman

 

  • No one can escape life’s pain. That’s life. – Pierce Brosnan

 

  • There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear. – Calvin Coolidge

 

  • Escape brings not the victory and the crown. – Sri Aurobindo

 

  • The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. – Cesare Pavese

 

  • Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to. – Michael Chabon

 

  • There’s no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you. – Chuck Palahniuk

 

  • Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart. – Muna Adnan Naqi