Escape Quotes

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.

~ Thomas P. Campbell

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

~ Thomas Wolfe

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

~ Brigitte Bardot

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

~ Hugo Weaving

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

~ Peter Wright

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

~ T. S. Eliot

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

~ Matthew Prior

At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.

~ Willard Wigan

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

~ Roland Barthes

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.

~ Shakira