Fessed Escape Quotes

Escape.. escape.. escape by God. Never mind hunger pains, discomfort, or any other agony. Let escape become your passion, your one and only obsession until you finally reach home. ~ Richard Pape

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it. ~ Antonio Machado

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

There are two ways to escape: escape without a purpose and escape with a purpose. I call the former 'floating', and the latter 'flight'. ~ Kinoko Nasu

No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation. ~ Joe Haldeman

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt. ~ Geri Halliwell

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain. ~ A.A. Milne

Writing let me escape ... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from. ~ Jennifer Weiner

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior. ~ Thomas Sowell

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. ~ Jack Henry Abbott

It's a little Anxious," Piglet said to himself, "to be a
Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water. Christopher
Robin and Pooh could escape by Climbing Trees, and Kanga could
escape by Jumping, and Rabbit could escape by Burrowing, and
Owl could escape by Flying, and Eeyore could escape by
by
Making a Loud Noise Until Rescued, and here am I, surrounded by
water and I can't do anything. ~ A.A. Milne

If I could only escape, if I could only escape ... he murmured the words to himself a dozen times; then metaphorically shook himself for being so impractical, so romantic, so dutiless. ~ John Fowles

Take my hand and escape me from what I've become. ~ Rafy Rohaan

Escape is very difficult to negotiate, underwater. ~ Darion D'Anjou

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. ~ David Mitchell

Let them run ahead. Then I'll have good reason for shooting them down. Sharpeville? Attempting to escape. Attempting to escape from the prison of their lives. That's the most dangerous crime. It brings about revolution. So, off we go, lads! ~ Derek Walcott

The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from. ~ Anonymous

I write to escape; to escape poverty. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

Escapism that is not an escape from or to anywhere, but an escape of our utopian selves. ~ Richard Maltby

And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape. ~ Angela Carter

My eyes roved over the walls covered with my collages and prints of famous paintings. Magritte, Kandinsky, Kahlo. My origami shapes hung from fishing wire, dangling over my bed. They shivered in the slight breeze blowing through my open window. It was my own little escape pod, but none of it was enough tonight. ~ Heather Demetrios

Soulcial Shit. [Fertilizer]
you climbed under the skin I'm trying to escape. ~ Antonia Perdu

one's innate desire for escape.' Everyone needs to escape, don't they? In one way or another, I mean. ~ Alan Bradley

I don't ever feel the need to escape. ~ Harry Connick, Jr.

There is no escape from me, not even in death. ~ Conn Iggulden

Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness. ~ Melissa Marr

I do not wish to escape to myself, I wish to escape from myself. I wish to obliterate my consciousness and my knowledge of independent existence, my guilts, my secretiveness. ~ Allen Ginsberg

Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something. ~ Yann Martel

That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it. ~ Olen Steinhauer

Even prisoners can escape if they have books. ~ Michelle Moran

Books. The more I thought about how to stop and get myself back together as one sane, whole person, the more I thought about books. I thought about escape. Not running to escape but reading to escape. Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that "words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living." That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again. ~ Nina Sankovitch

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death. ~ Dalai Lama

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two. ~ Sheri S. Tepper

Before I knew escape, life was something to be endured, passively. Now I hunger for it. ~ Kristin Halbrook

Your eyes, they shine so bright
I wanna save that light
I can't escape this now
Unless you show me how ~ Anth

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

I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape. ~ Gore Vidal

But no escape route." "Ah," he says. "So you're looking for an escape route." Hadley nods. "Always. ~ Jennifer E. Smith

My job is what I love. I don't need an escape from it. ~ James Franco

You can't escape from what you are. ~ Vincent Cassel

Little thieves get shot, but great ones escape."
Kelly Oliver, WOLF: A Jessica James Mystery ~ Kelly Oliver

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons. ~ Demi Lovato

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard. ~ David Copperfield

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. ~ William Blackstone

Escape the repetitive whirl wind that life can become through complacency. ~ Steven Redhead

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. ~ Victor Hugo

A sensual woman is the best escape and emotional cure for a man who's soul is distressed. If women could learn that, they wouldn't even have to spend one sleepless night worrying about the possibility of their men cheating. ~ Lebo Grand

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape. ~ Simon Callow

His life was not confined and the delight he took in this observation could not be explained by its suggestion of escape. ~ John Cheever

When you talk about escape, know that it doesn't take place from the front. Hidden paths are always on the back. ~ Waheed Ibne Musa

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 emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. ~ T. S. Eliot

For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape. ~ Christopher Fowler

I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route. ~ Rita Ora

You can escape into a character. ~ John Candy

It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness.
And then the escape was not complete. Part of her knew, always. ~ Elizabeth Lowell

The dogs are still playing in the yard, but the quarry will not escape them, never mind how fast it is running through the forest already. ~ Franz Kafka

Escape to Read and Read to Escape! ~ Maggie Thom

Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that 'words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.' That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again.
p.20 ~ Nina Sankovitch

That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not completely. ~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

I love traveling; it's, like, my perfect escape. ~ Michael Steger

There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows. ~ Steven Gould

I don't think I can ever escape from music. ~ Jason Derulo

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character. ~ John Candy

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

Sometimes you just don't escape some things. Wild's just a demon I can't escape. ~ Maheen Salman Ahmad

Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge. ~ Trenton Lee Stewart

I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape. ~ Liam Hemsworth

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it. ~ Robert Crippen

To forbid the thought of escape, even that slightest butterfly thought of escape, was to murder one's humanity. ~ Colson Whitehead

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

I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me. ~ Lauren Bacall

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus. ~ Hesiod

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it. ~ Tina Weymouth

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world. ~ Dogen

Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one. ~ Gayle Forman

Understand, it's never been easy to live,
when we're trying to escape ourselves. ~ Kelli Russell Agodon

A child can escape the shadows. ~ Steve Largent

For me, horror movies are a real escape. ~ Lena Headey

I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them. ~ Charles Kennedy

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me. ~ Scott Stossel

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. ~ Steven Spielberg

I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.' ~ Rufus Wainwright

I think people watch TV to escape from life. ~ Terence Lewis

This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy. ~ Thaksin Shinawatra

I read to escape...I write to help others escape...
--Howard Hopkins, Author of The Chloe Files ~ Howard Hopkins

I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there. ~ Damon Albarn

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

She had headed towards town aimlessly, looking for the kind of escape that could be found only in a solitary walk through a crowd. ~ Jade Chang

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world. ~ Shannon L. Alder

To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into? ~ Anne Michaels

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own. ~ Marcus Aurelius

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

This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape. ~ Frederick Leboyer

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that. ~ Jason Mraz

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself. ~ Rabih Alameddine

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape. ~ Geoffrey S. Fletcher

He could as little escape her as the cause can escape the effect. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight. ~ Karen Abbott

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. ~ Ellis Peters

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt. ~ John Hunt Morgan