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Quotes About Escape

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.
~ Karl Marx
Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
~ Victor Hugo
Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.
~ Woody Allen
Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
A baby is born like a bird ready to soar from the mother's lap. The nets of societal rules and regulations puts him in a cage from which he can never escape to create his own new world.
~ Debasish Mridha
When you write and when you read, you are living in a different world.
~ Debasish Mridha
Some songs can make you to travel a million miles inside your head
~ Pradeepa Pandiyan
Life is better when I get lost in natural beauty.
~ Debasish Mridha
We can leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it
~ Adriano Bulla, New Age Spirit
Dave was a confirmed serotonin junkie. Any day of the year, he chose a good book, a hot cupper, and air-conditioning over jeopardy to life and limb.
~ Dan Sofer, A Love and Beyond
Life is all about being in the labyrinth just to seek happiness but the only way to escape it is to stop and wait what's next in this line
~ Bianca Agoncillo
And you thought there was only one exit door...
~ L. M. Fields
When we run away from something. We're usually running away from ourselves.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.
~ Michael Oakeshott
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
~ Charles Baudelaire
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—
~ Emily Dickinson
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
~ T. S. Eliot
Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.
~ Colin Wilson
We ran as if to meet the moon.
~ Robert Frost
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
~ John Fowles, The Magus
Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.
~ Gregory Orr
Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.
~ Samuel Palmer
I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.
~ Lucie Brock-Broido
Poetry is a break for freedom.
~ David Whyte