Escape Quotes

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.

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

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.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

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.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.

I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it.

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

A child can escape the shadows.

I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.