Quotes about Escape
I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.
- Moby
A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. but it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and don't try to hold him, that he cant escape from
- William Faulkner
He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself.
- William Faulkner
And I reckon this is jut my lice, too, the other said. 'But I know now why it is,' Byron things. 'It is because a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
- William Faulkner
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
- Henri Matisse
A man escaped from his cell is not free who still drags his chain.)
- Leonard Ravenhill
It's so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routines and recliners and 'usual' anything!
- Bruce Wilkinson
It would be great to have a little getaway place somewhere hot, maybe down in Mexico, since I love it there. But now that I've banned myself from the sun, I don't know how that will work.
- Jennifer Aniston
Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.
- Albert Einstein
Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.
- Diane von Furstenberg
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.
- Wendell Berry
Sometimes, my books start with a scene I see in my mind, such as a woman in a wedding dress running away from her wedding like in 'Embers of Love.' Sometimes, a book can start with a character.
- Tracie Peterson