Self Escape Quotes
Collection of top 32 famous quotes about Self Escape
Self Escape Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Self Escape quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer. — Candace Bushnell
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.
— Joseph Conrad
But unlike Lachlan and Alison, my demons aren't self-induced. My demons are fate's way of telling me I won't escape unscathed.
— Kaitlyn Oruska
The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.
— George MacKay
And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving.
— Ash Parsons
The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.
— Eric Hoffer
Children are a perpetual, self-renewing underclass, helpless to escape from the decisions of adults until they become adults themselves. And
— Orson Scott Card
You can't escape your past by running from it.
— C.M. Stunich
Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.
— Michael Dirda
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
— Fay Weldon
I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.
— Rabih Alameddine
You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you.
— Fennel Hudson
A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.
— Ethan Gilsdorf
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
— Samuel Johnson
Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Racing is an escape from society. From symbols of status, and self-perception. A chance to just be. For everyone to just be, with each other.
— Erin Beresini
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.
— Marya Hornbacher
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
Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it.
— Shannon L. Alder
To be spontaneous is to escape the cage of the ego by trusting that which is beyond the self.
— John O'Donohue
I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that
— Paula Hawkins
I swear by the self-assurance with which elderly men sitting in public tilt sideways to allow the gas to escape loudly.
— Pawan Mishra
It is in the stillness of our own self that we can learn those things that escape us in the noise of the market place...
— Ainslie Meares
Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.
— Hugh MacLennan
