Definition of Escaping

Escaping Quotations

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
James Joyce

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles Baudelaire

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

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Joseph Addison

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.
Helena Bonham Carter

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.
Laura Hillenbrand

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
Daniel Barenboim

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.
Hugh MacDiarmid

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.
Julie Walters