My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.
Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if you are going to pull others out of it, and you will have to dive into the floods if you are going to draw others out of the water. You cannot work a fire escape without feeling the scorch of the conflagration, nor man a lifeboat without being covered with the waves.
I absolutely don't relate to being beaten down my whole life - I had amazing opportunities at a young age - but there is still in many, many people's minds the notion that I'll never be able to escape Harry Potter.
In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem. . . I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if I did not get out I would slowly strangle.
It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.
What I think about you, I will not be able to escape thinking about myself, and what I do to you, I will not be able to escape experiencing myself.
The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they start trapping it into lies. And the child is helpless. He cannot escape his parents, he is utterly dependent. You can exploit his dependence. . . and it has been exploited down the ages.
Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small. . . and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
Heaven is supposed to be a perfect place. Yet, it experienced a war (Revelation 12:7). How can there be a war in a perfect place and if it happened before why couldn't it happen again? Why would I want to go to a place in which war can occur? That's exactly what I'm trying to escape, aren't you?
For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?
John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him.
I think the time has changed. Because of 911, because of the economy, it is more and more now. There is a darker awareness, although it would seem to reason that because life is so much tougher now people would seek entertainment to just totally escape.
You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.
My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.
Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.
The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.