656 Quotes About Escape

What good was escaping into one's imagination if the world's problems came along for the ride?

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Max determined, then and there, that he would escape from this horrible place or die in the attempt.

If Max had any doubts about attempting to escape, this conversation alleviated them. He would not end up like the men and women in the pit . . .

Without Max including me in his plans . . . I would not be here today. I thank Hashem, every day, for sending me an angel named Max Lewenstein. As I look out at his wife and beautiful family, his children and grandchildren, remember, you too would not be here today if not for the extraordinary bravery of the angel, Max Lewenstein.

There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect self, and even if I kept moving, she would dog me all the way around the world, forever.

I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could.

Whether that meant banishment, death, or worse, I dare not guess. I just knew I would do everything in my power to escape that fate

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.