Quotes about Escape

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.

The one set of plans she had made—getting away from Sweet Home—went awry so completely she never dared life by making more.

Six months into the bliss of edible sex, free-style music, challenging books and the company of an easy undemanding Bride, the fairy-tale castle collapsed into the mud and sand on which its vanity was built. And Booker ran away.

Jumping from the roof of Mercy was the most interesting thing he had done.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

He would never want to diminish that event, that blow. It was nothing less than a calamity. It has shrunk his world, turned him into a prisoner. But escaping death ought to have shaken him up, opened windows inside him, renewed his sense of the preciousness of life. It has done nothing of the sort. He is trapped with the same old self as before , only greyer and drearier. Enough to drive one to drink.

The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois. You don't get lost in the woods behind your house. You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall.

The only real escape from the demands of the flesh is to find something more than the flesh to love; and that Mary is the refuge of sinners.