Sayings about Escaping
Courage is ten; nine is the ability of escaping. ~ Azerbaijani Proverbs
You may go where you want, but you cannot escape yourself. ~ Norwegian Proverbs
You can’t escape death and guests. ~ Iranian Proverbs
There is no escape from heaven’s web. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Sometimes you have to throw yourself into the fire to escape from the smoke. ~ Greek Proverbs
A deer tethered with a golden chain can escape to the forest to eat grass. ~ Malawian Proverbs
A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world. ~ English Proverbs
Give a horse to the one who likes the truth so that on it he can escape. ~ Armenian Proverbs
The horse may run quickly, but it can’t escape its own tail. ~ Russian Proverbs
Only when the horses have escaped do men repair the stable. ~ German Proverbs
That which is escaped now is pain to come. ~ Traditional Proverb
The hare that escaped had eight legs. ~ Indian Proverbs
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~ Chinese Proverb
The bird that escapes from its cage never wants to come back. ~ Vietnamese Proverbs
Even if the sky falls on you, there is a hole that you can escape from. ~ Korean Proverbs
Saving mustard seeds in hand, while a watermelon escapes. ~ Kashmiri Proverb
Opportunity has hair in front, behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her, but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again. ~ Latin Proverbs
If you have escaped the jaws of the crocodile while bathing in the river, you will surely meet a leopard on the way. ~ African Proverb
Quotations about Escaping
If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible. ~ Ram Dass
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. ~ Alan Saporta
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. ~ Horace
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Death was like love, a romantic escape. ~ Brigitte Bardot
Don’t pray to escape trouble. Don’t pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for. ~ Samuel M. Shoemaker
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ~ Thomas Mann
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. ~ Sir William Blackstone
If you can’t be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape. ~ Author Unknown
Work is the world’s easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success. ~ Marabel Morgan
All the best stories are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. ~ A. C. Benson
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. ~ William Blackstone
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape. ~ Author Unknown
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. ~ J. Donald Walters
Music is supposed to be an escape. It’s supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be. ~ Joel Madden
Movies are about escape. ~ George A. Romero
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. ~ Alfred A. Montapert
The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. ~ Sir Walter Scott
How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny? ~ Ferdowsi
There is no escape – we pay for the violence of our ancestors. ~Frank Herbert
To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life. ~ Oscar Wilde
Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves. ~ Mark Haddon
I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. ~ Nadia Comaneci
Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape? ~ Geraldine Chaplin
Reading serves as a good escape when you’re in the middle of doing crazy things. ~ Carly Rae Jepsen
I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing – dreams of escape. ~ Julie Walters
The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it. ~ Robert Anthony
We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we’re trying to escape from. ~ David Lloyd
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. ~ Albert Einstein
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? ~ John Churton Collins
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. ~ Ellis Peters
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. ~ Albert Einstein
I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great. ~ Perry Farrell
Escapism : habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from reality or routine. ~ Definition from Merriam Webster-dictionary