Escaping Quotes

• Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

  James Joyce

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

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• War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

  Philip Caputo

  War, Mean, Marine

  Philip Caputo (2014). “A Rumor of War”, p.6, Macmillan

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  The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Change, Lying

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

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• I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Actors, Kind

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• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Murakami Haruki, (2012). “L'arte di correre”, p.8, Giulio Einaudi Editore

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  You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

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• Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

  Michael Chabon

  Anxiety, Forget, Reserves

  "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.

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• My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Giving, Youth

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

  Edith Piaf

  Singing, World, Earth

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• I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

  Ransom Riggs

  Dream, Home, Missing

  "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children". Book by Ransom Riggs, 2011.

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• To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

  Jose Bergamin

  Hope, Despair, Age

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• When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that

  Pema Chodron

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Giving Up

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

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• There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Time, Pain, Blow

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• You can run but you can't hide

  Emily Giffin

  Running, Marine Corps, Hiding

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.353, Macmillan

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• Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

  Yanni

  Life, Motivational, Music

  Yanni (2003). “Yanni in Words”

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• We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Time, Mean, Night

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

  Steve Buscemi

  Bail, Prison, Film

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.

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• We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Teacher, Selfish, Live Life

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• It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

  Joseph Addison

  Birthday, Men, Thinking

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Spectator”, p.234

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• That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

  Julie Walters

  World, Actresses

  "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". Interview with James Mottram, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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• Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

  Hugh MacDiarmid

  Bedtime, Fortunate, Principal

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• Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.

  Rama Swami

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Yoga

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• No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

  1967 In Partisan Review, Summer issue.

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• We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

  Joan Didion

  Fate, Men, Optimism

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 24, 2011

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• Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

  Greil Marcus

  Drama, Limits

  Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.143, Penguin

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