(239 quotes found)
“When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope”
Henri Nouwen
“What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What will not a crow eat?”
Chanakya
“The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.”
Harry Houdini
“Do you call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling idea, and not that you have escaped from a yoke. . . . Free from what? Zarathustra does not care about that! But your eye should clearly tell me: free for what?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is an unborn, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. There cannot be any escape from what is born, become compounded. But since there is this unborn, not become, not-made, not-compounded, therefore is there made known an escape from what i”
Buddha
“The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.”
Dr. Robert Anthony
“The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier”
Sir Walter Scott
“We're so trendy we cant even escape ourselves.”
Kurt Cobain
“While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living”
Cyril Connolly
“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”
Clare Boothe Luce
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