Quotes about Escape

The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois. You don't get lost in the woods behind your house. You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall.

The only real escape from the demands of the flesh is to find something more than the flesh to love; and that Mary is the refuge of sinners.

There is a way of avoiding a person which resembles a search.

If one could only get out of a grief as one gets out of a city!

By continually going out for reverie, a day comes when you go out to drown yourself.

Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. That

Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze? A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I was frightened by the thought that it could not escape its encirclement.