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"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 we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things." »Emily Dickinson
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"At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below." »Theodosia Garrison
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"All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape." »A. C. Benson
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"...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought." »Albert Einstein
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"The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind." »Heinrich Heine
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"Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me." »Epictetus
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"Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves." »Cesar Chavez, letter
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"The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so." »Epicurus
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"Those who marry to escape something usually find something else." »Claire Huchet Bishop
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"There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors." »Frank Herbert
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"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it." »Alan Saporta
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"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape." »Anonymous
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"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled." »Horace
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"It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer." »William Blackstone
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"We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire." »Eric Hoffer
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"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." »Abraham Lincoln
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"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape." »John Lancaster Spalding
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"Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it." »Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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"A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death." »Lucius Accius
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"Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility." »Brooks Atkinson
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"Look beneath the surface let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there." »E. M. Cioran
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"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." »Chinese Proverb
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"We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures." »Susan Jeffers
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"A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world." »English Proverb
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"The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to." »Dodie Smith
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"Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on." »Steven Patrick Callahan
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"Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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