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Quotes About Escape

Ich will zwei Menschen gleichzeitig sein. Der eine rennt weg.
~ Peter Heller
One adopted their language, that of the teachers and the schools, one had none of one's own. At first it was like a release, like a key, like a road. The only road in. Much later one discovers that what one was let into, at that time, was a tunnel. From which one can never again escape. Not entirely. Not in this life.
~ Peter Høeg
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.
~ Genesis 14:10
“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.
~ Genesis 16:8
Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
~ Genesis 19:12
So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
~ Genesis 19:14
At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
~ Genesis 19:15
But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORDís compassion for them.
~ Genesis 19:16
As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
~ Genesis 19:17
Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
~ Genesis 19:19
Look, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it is a small place. Please let me flee there—is it not a small place? Then my life will be saved.”
~ Genesis 19:20
Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.
~ Genesis 19:22
And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.
~ Genesis 19:23
Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.
~ Genesis 19:30
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her fatherís household idols.
~ Genesis 31:19
Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
~ Genesis 31:20
So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.
~ Genesis 31:21
On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.
~ Genesis 31:22
He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”
~ Genesis 32:8
She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.
~ Genesis 39:12
When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,
~ Genesis 39:13
When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
~ Genesis 39:15
but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
~ Genesis 39:18
When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.
~ Exodus 2:15