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

Dozens of books. I wonder if she's read them all, or if she just needs them for comfort. Maybe she uses them as an escape from her real life. — Colleen Hoover

I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life. — Nelson Mandela

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.
+ Then you shouldn't be a writer. — Candace Bushnell

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it. — Leo Tolstoy

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

One day you realise your old life was only an escape from an inner silence — Judy Croome

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life. — Albert Einstein

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from. — Seth Godin

I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death? — James Clavell

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation. — Saib Tabrizi

Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us. — Laozi

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine. — Freya Stark

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truly sacred attitude toward life is in no sense an escape from the sense of nothingness that assails us when we are left alone with ourselves. — Thomas Merton

Writing is the easiest way to escape from the real world. — Anna Jean Ouellette

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation. — David Whyte

The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can't escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die. — C.J. Sansom

Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life. — Alistair Begg

Any person, viewed from the appropriate angle, can be described as the sum of every fear they've tried to escape over their life. — Michael G. Williams

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

As far back as I can remember I would escape from my humdrum world by burying myself in books
the
one true love of my life when growing up. — Jane Green

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past. — Carla H. Krueger

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life. — Wallace Shawn

Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more. — Mary E. Pearson

Meditation is not an escape from life ... but preparation for really being in life. — Nhat Hanh

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel. — David Macaulay

Instead of wondering when you're next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life that you don't need to escape from. — Seth Godin

Music is the love of my life. It's a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpecet and meaningful. — Miley Cyrus

I lived a thousand lives to escape from real life, because real life is boring and shitty. — Staci Hart

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The best thing about reading is to escape from your life, to be able to live hundreds or even thousands of different lives. — Anna Todd

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. — Karin Slaughter

You are here to experience life, not to escape from it. — Stuart Wilde

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats ... — Albert Einstein

(She) whispered, "There is no escape from death." "No, there isn't," I admitted, "but there is still life. — Colleen Houck

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life. — Edith Wharton

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors
we hope
of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card

Writing is an escape from life reading is living a different life. — Sofia Kennedy

Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life. — Radhanath Swami

Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.
What are you running from?
What are you waiting for? — Sanhita Baruah

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. — Thomas Wolfe

It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life. — Geraldine McCaughrean

When you read a good book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it"
- — Julia Barnes

Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. — Stephenie Meyer

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life. — Neil Simon

[Art is] an attempt to escape from life. — H.L. Mencken

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it. — Mark Doty

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive. — Bella Pollen

I went to the club to escape my life and pretend I'm somebody else. Now I don't know who I am anymore. — E. Leo Foster

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either. — Ellis Peters

It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young. — Mark Twain