Quotes about Escape
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
— George Bernard Shaw
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
— George Bernard Shaw
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
— George Eliot
And that fox escaped with his tail between his legs, with all of the hens chasing after him
— Isabel Allende
Hi. I'm on the run from the FBI, Interpol, and a Las Vegas criminal gang," I announced bluntly, to avoid any misunderstandings. "Congratulations," he said.
— Isabel Allende
We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.
— Anonymous
If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.
— Anonymous
The one set of plans she had made—getting away from Sweet Home—went awry so completely she never dared life by making more.
— Toni Morrison
Six months into the bliss of edible sex, free-style music, challenging books and the company of an easy undemanding Bride, the fairy-tale castle collapsed into the mud and sand on which its vanity was built. And Booker ran away.
— Toni Morrison
Jumping from the roof of Mercy was the most interesting thing he had done.
— Toni Morrison
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
— Samuel Johnson
He would never want to diminish that event, that blow. It was nothing less than a calamity. It has shrunk his world, turned him into a prisoner. But escaping death ought to have shaken him up, opened windows inside him, renewed his sense of the preciousness of life. It has done nothing of the sort. He is trapped with the same old self as before , only greyer and drearier. Enough to drive one to drink.
— JM Coetzee