Quotes about Escape

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

If you believe that you're going to leave and evacuate to somewhere else, then why do anything about this world? A proper view of heaven leads not to escape from the world, but to full engagement with it, all with the anticipation of a coming day when things are on earth as they currently are in heaven.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind's mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.

If you give a poor man an acre of land around his house, he will be pleased and stay there for life. Build a wall around that acre, however, and all he will want is to escape.

Laughter is humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

The only hope for escaping the traps of the conditioned mind is to use its better nature as a thread,

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

I have fled my country and gone to the heather.