Quotes About Escape

You never escape the traps you spin yourself.

I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run.

Estúpidos cretinos! —espetó la Zahorí, que vibraba de pies a cabeza, con ojos destellantes y mejillas coloreadas—. ¿Por qué razón, en nombre de la Luz, os habéis escapado corriendo?

Still bubbling thanks, the Tinker did not wait to wash his tears away, but ran straight out of the inn

It is why he got the hell out of his hometown, Waynesboro, two days ago.

For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions.

If there was such a life and he could accept it without the terrible labyrinth from which he could find no escape. But it was more than that. In a manmade labyrinth one kept moving, running, careening off walls, the contact itself a form of progress, if only blind. His personal labyrinth had no walls, no defined corridors through which to race.

There's gotta be a way out of this dungeon.- G. Gygax

The fact that our team had penetrated 150 miles into Pakistan, carried out the raid in the middle of a military garrison town, and then escaped without the Pakistani military being the wiser was an awful black eye.

He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time.

She seems so depressed sometimes by the monotony and boredom of her city life, I thought maybe in this endless grass and wind she would see a thing that sometimes comes when monotony and boredom are accepted. It's here, but I have no names for it.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from his noisy cramped surroundings into the silence of the high mountains where the eye ranges freely through the still pure air and fondly traces out the restful contours apparently built for eternity.

And if you can understand the feeling that comes from that, then you can understand real fear—the fear that comes from knowing there is nowhere you can possibly run.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from his noisy cramped surroundings into the silence of the high mountains where the eye ranges freely through the still pure air and fondly traces out the restful contours apparently built for eternity. The passage is from a 1918 speech by a young German scientist named Albert Einstein.

Mind has no matter or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the mind. Numbers exist only in the mind.

Fear is the vigilance and the need to escape from something real. Anxiety is about dread and foreboding and your imagination running away with you. Much as with depression, anxiety is rooted in a cognitive distortion. In this case, people prone toward anxiety overestimate risks and the likelihood of a bad outcome.

A person never finds himself a total coward, because if something frightens him he runs just far enough away to consider himself a hero again!

She cleared them out, and fast. The car went off down the gravel road with the springs flat on the rear axle and human flesh oozing out the windows, then the evening quiet descended upon us.

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying, 'Flee, all is discovered.' It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire.

The ingenious way in which Dennison and his colleagues broke out of their seemingly impregnable prison, using only a steel belt buckle, a tungsten filament, three hens' eggs, and twelve chemicals that can be readily obtained from the human body, is too well known to be repeated here.

Yo les estoy hablando de liberarse de la Carrera de la Rata y ellos se enfocan en inodoros. Este es el tipo de esquema de pensamiento que mantiene a tanta gente pobre. Critican en lugar de analizar.

Most people never see the trap they are in.

En cuanto la gente cae presa del inacabable proceso de pagar cuentas, se convierten en algo como los hamsters que corren en las ruedas de metal. Sus peludas patitas corren con furia, la rueda gira sin parar pero, a la mañana siguiente, seguirán en la misma jaula. Qué gran trabajo.

An employee with a safe, secure job, without financial aptitude, has no escape.