Escaping Quotes - Page 10

• I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you don't want to participate in your own reality, those are the times we have to start asking ourselves difficult questions.

  Joshua Mohr

  Reality, Thinking, Difficult Questions

  "The Fight in Joshua Mohr". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2013.

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• He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

  Abraham Verghese

  Climbing, House, Tree

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• Nothing which consists of corporeal matter is absolutely light, but that is comparatively lighter which is rarer, either by its own nature, or by accidental heat. And it is not to be thought that light bodies are escaping to the surface of the universe while they are carried upwards, or that they are not attracted by the earth. They are attracted, but in a less degree, and so are driven outwards by the heavy bodies; which being done, they stop, and are kept by the earth in their own place.

  Johannes Kepler

  Light, Done, Body

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no one’s business. Your scars are battle wounds, but you don’t see them that way. Yet.

  Tammara Webber

  Tattoo, Battle Wounds, People

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• Say something in Mandarin,” said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and consonants run together, his voice rising and falling melodically: “Ni hen piao liang.” “What did you say?” Tessa was curious. “I said your hair is coming undone — here,” he said, and reached out and tucked an escaping curl back behind her ear. Tessa felt the blood spill hot up into her face, and was glad for the dimness of the carriage. “You have to be careful with it,” he said, taking his hand back, slowly, his fingers lingering against her cheek.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Fall, Hair

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• To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.

  Tacitus

  Men, Battle, May

  Tacitus (1851). “Germania by Tacitus”, p.6, Charles River Editors

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• I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm escaping a world I don't like. A world I have no control in. In this world, I am nothing. I am a color, a height, a weight, a number. But in the world of books and writing, I am amazing. I am powerful. I am different. People are better. Worlds are endless. Change is possible. Life is manageable.

  Philip K. Dick

  Powerful, Book, Writing

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• There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.

  Kami Garcia

  Blue, Color, Wind

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• The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Majority, World

  "The Rebel". Book by Albert Camus, 1951.

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• sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hurt, Skins, Wit

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.214, Scholastic Inc.

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• When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up.

  Julian Barnes

  Smell, Cooking, Young

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

  Stefano Benni

  Art, Everyday, Alive

  Stefano Benni, Antony Shugaar (2006). “Margherita Dolce Vita”, Europa Editions Incorporated

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• One of them hissed-not the hiss of a cat, a long, steady tone-more like the hiss of air escaping the rubber raft that is all that lies between you and a dark sea full of sharks, the hiss of your life leaking out at the seams.

  Christopher Moore

  Lying, Cat, Dark

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

  Samuel Beckett

  Heart, Thinking, Long

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.

  Claudia Gray

  Teacher, Destiny, Guy

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• Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Money, Angel

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Religious, Believe, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8184, Delphi Classics

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• We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

  Pema Chodron

  Mind, Monsters, Whole Life

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• There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent a significant portion of infrared radiation from escaping into space.

  George W. Bush

  Space, Earth, Radiation

  "President Bush Announces Global Warming Initiatives". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. June 11, 2001.

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• The trick is not escaping your fear, but confronting it and allowing it to drive and teach you. Only by getting to the bottom of your fears can you find their valuable lessons and move forward stronger than before.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Moving, Stronger

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• All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. ...Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Fighting, Thinking

  "The Blind Assassin". Book by Margaret Atwood, 2000.

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• And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Cities, Rivers, One Day

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• Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Climbing Up, Pages, Opinion

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• 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

  Book, Exercise, Giving

  Paul Auster (2016). “Collected Novels Volume Four”, p.102, Faber & Faber

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• There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fate, Night, Keep Going

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.295, W. W. Norton & Company

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