Escape

Famous quotes containing the word escape:

    Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    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 who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)