What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.
Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need.
Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.
I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment - that's escape.
One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.
Repression forces your mind to be more deeply entrenched in those things from which you are trying to escape.
The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.
John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him.
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism.
There is always that dream of escape, but there is no place to escape to, you just run into yourself.