1. The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say.-Frederick Weisel
2. The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don’t dwell.-Michael Josephson
3. The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.-Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.-Roland Barthes
5. For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.-Andre Maurois
6. You can escape into a character.-John Candy
7. To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner’s dock is disgrace.-George Eliot
8. We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we’re trying to escape from.-David Lloyd
9. The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.-Robert Anthony
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10. If you escape from people too often, you wind up escaping from yourself.-Marvin Gaye
11. It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.-Alice Hoffman
12. The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.-Albert Einstein
13. The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.-Cesare Pavese
14. There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.-Edmond H. Fischer
15. Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.-Henry Ward Beecher
16. There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one’s problems and sorrows with one.-Elizabeth Aston
17. You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.-Vernon Howard
18. Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.-James Joyce
19. An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.-Bryant McGill
20. Escapism isn’t good or bad in itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.-Terry Pratchett
21. A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman’s eyes.-Clare Boothe Luce
22. There’s no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.-Chuck Palahniuk
23. If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.-Henry Home
24. No one can escape life’s pain. That’s life.-Pierce Brosnan
25. We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds.-Pema Chödrön
26. Escape brings not the victory and the crown.-Sri Aurobindo
27. One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.-Chris Van Hollen
28. No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.-Ernest Renan
29. Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.-Paul Auster