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What drives me is what I'm putting out into the world, and I like to make films that people can connect to, or they can escape in. — Cameron Diaz

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you?
It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it. — John Boyne

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say? — Steven Erikson

By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something about the world. — Umberto Eco

The spirit of the way is surely there, in the wish to wander through the world in order to escape it and to find others where there is nobody. — Jean-Christophe Rufin

One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than through art. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape. — Rumi

Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better. — Marcus J. Borg

I meditate not to escape the world but instead to be completely present. — Joe Sacco

The whole world is a farce, needless to say. Who can escape that? — Haruki Murakami

Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught. — Jamie Magee

Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success. — Marabel Morgan

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Reading is an escape from the outside world. Everyone needs a little of that to keep their sanity. — Kim Holden

He wanted to tie her to him in ways she'd never escape. But they'd be the most loving, silken ties in the world. — Maya Banks

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world. — W.E.B. Du Bois

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

I'd turned to writing because it offered few escape routes or hiding places; it's harder to lie to yourself on the page than in the world. — Pico Iyer

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results. — George Washington Goethals

They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape. — Hannah Arendt

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me. — Nic Pizzolatto

... We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear it firsthand? — Chris Heimerdinger

Witches escape to the forest to listen to the whispers of nature itself... — Dacha Avelin

Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from the one that does. — Lisa Wingate

This was my safe space; my only escape from the world. — Tahereh Mafi

Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving. — Junot Diaz

Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge. — Joshua Cohen

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books. — Joseph Joubert

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

I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world. — Adrian Grenier

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death. — J.R. Moehringer

Events of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world. — Michael Hardt

But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to ... — Sanhita Baruah

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world. — Michael Ondaatje

The only place in all of the world where you can escape the dangers of love is hell. — C.S. Lewis

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world. — Dogen

To die was not to leave the world, not to escape somewhere else; it was the simultaneous change of every piece of yourself into nothing. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding. — Robert Hooke

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world. — Nicolas Chamfort

I always saw novels as an outlet for which the mind can escape this world, not be tethered to it." "I — Charlie N. Holmberg

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

The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world ... — Rumi

World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one! — Raheel Farooq

In the beginning the point was not to have a point, to escape the world in which everyone had to have a job, a desk, an office. — Orhan Pamuk

He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him. — Michael Finkel

Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom. — Swami Vivekananda

To escape him she had run away to the end of the world. To be free of him she had run away to places where he never went. — Anais Nin

We could run all over the world, but we wouldn't be able to escape what was inside us, and eventually it would destroy all of us. — Jeaniene Frost

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves. — Mark Haddon

People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself. — Paramahansa Yogananda

He who wants the world must first escape from it. — Daniel Handler

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same. — Terry Gilliam

We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world. — Aml Ameen

All this time I thought you were reading to escape the world, but now I know, you didn't read to escape it, you read to discover it. — Brittainy C. Cherry

Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world. — Raheel Farooq

Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment. — James Rozoff

How can a prisoner plot his escape if he doesn't believe a world exists outside the prison walls? — Skye Jethani

Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it. — Lamar Odom

To imagine wasn't to escape but to go deeper; to see through to the secret life of the world. — Alison MacLeod

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable. — Tennessee Williams

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

Taken all together, it's difficult to escape the verdict that William Wilberforce was simply the greatest social reformer in the history of the world. — Eric Metaxas

As my intimacy with his family grew, I became part of the world which he sought to escape; I became one of the bonds which held him. — Evelyn Waugh

She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it. — C.M. Stunich

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it. — Timothy Keller

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. — John Ciardi

Fiction is not an escape from the world either. Imaginary experience is also experience. O — Siri Hustvedt

Pain was best left in the real world where it belonged, where it burrowed so deep you needed a multimillion-dollar industry to escape from it. "Babes, — Sonali Dev

As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's trouble. — Octavia E. Butler

Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one. — Giuseppe Bianco

You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it." It's an easy way to escape responsibility. — Ice Cube

One cannot escape the world more certainly through art, and one cannot bind oneself to it more certainly than through art — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Why would anyone get drunk? Why does anyone need anything like that to escape the world, when the world is its own antidote? — Holly Bourne

Where death follows, there's life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you'll eventually find the light. — Lee Argus