Escape defines break free from confinement or control. We sometimes try to escape from our problems and struggles. But escaping from problems is never an way out. Below this is a collection of 70+ escape quotes and sayings.
1. My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water. Carl Hiaasen
2. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln
3. Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma. Mahavira
4. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe
5. The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius
6. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. Alfred A. Montapert
7. No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers. Ravi Zacharias
8. To escape and sit quietly on the beach - that's my idea of paradise. Emilia Wickstead
9. No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation. Jiddu Krishnamurti
10. We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves. Kurt Cobain
11. The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. John Ciardi
12. Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons. Demi Lovato
13. A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. Pam Brown
14. To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. Aristotle
15. To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. Aristotle
16. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. Anaïs Nin
17. But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in. Junot Díaz
18. How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure. Alexandre Dumas
19. Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. William S. Burroughs
20. That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not completely. Jennifer L. Armentrout
21. I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that. Victoria Schwab
22. It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. Sigmund Freud
23. 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
24. To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. John Fowles
25. To escape death, she'd become death. Sarah J. Maas
26. Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Eckhart Tolle
27. You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought. Enid Blyton
28. Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. David Mitchell
29. We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor. Benedict Cumberbatch
30. To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world. Dōgen
31. I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself. Rabih Alameddine
32. Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate. Wilfred Owen
33. However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end. Rachel Ward
34. You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive. Bella Pollen
35. Escape is a commodity like anything else. Iain Banks
36. Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world. Shannon L. Alder
37. Even prisoners can escape if they have books. Michelle Moran
38. A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. Dejan Stojanovic
39. Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art. Arthur Symons
40. We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. Eric Hoffer
41. 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
42. There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows. Steven Gould
43. Music is my escape from harsh reality,I feel like the world is against me, seriously. Anon
44. If poetry is an escape into the woods,,then music is the journey back home. Akash Mandal
45. Art is anything you can get lost in. A place to escape and a place to find yourself. Heloise Clough
46. The human desire to “escape” is simply a desire to unlock parts of the brain which are mainly unused and inaccessible during sober times. Robert Black
47. You can never escape from the thing you carry in your mind! Mehmet Murat ildan
48. Yeah, I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that. Victoria Schwab
49. Escape is a process, not a pill. Beth Kempton
50. Escape is just a will away. Mahrukh
51. The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from. Anonymous
52. God always makes a way of escape from complicated situations. Sunday Adelaja
53. Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
54. The things you escape have the ability to catch you, one or other day! Stop running away! Meet them and defeat them! Mehmet Murat ildan
55. As we fulfill our dream and move toward success, we will not escape fighting. Sunday Adelaja
56. Escape the repetitive whirl wind that life can become through complacency. Steven Redhead
57. Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship. Lailah Gifty Akita
58. Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart. Kamand Kojouri
59. Running is an effort to escape from comfort zone. Tumpal Sihombing
60. I can escape to the blissful realms between the pages of books. Lailah Gifty Akita
61. When people view their lives as insignificant, they escape using pleasure. Moxie Will
62. Understand, it’s never been easy to live, when we’re trying to escape ourselves. Kelli Russell Agodon
63. The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. Brendan Francis
64. My mind became a sanctuary for secret thoughts of escaping from this household. Tehmina Durrani
65. Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly. Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell
66. The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape. Peter Høeg
67. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. Edward Abbey
68. An extrovert looks at a stack of books and sees a stack of papers, while an introvert looks at the same stack and sees a soothing source of escape. Eric Samuel Timm
69. And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape. Angela Carter
70. Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window. Kevin James Moore
71. Escape is very difficult to negotiate, underwater. Darion D'Anjou
72. An overall feeling of doom that one cannot ever escape no matter what one does. Lemony Snicket
73. Escape to Read and Read to Escape! Maggie Thom