#escape

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#addicted #addictions #avoiding #basis #become

In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#escape #just #record #summer #usa

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. ↗

— Voltaire

#brave #close #coward #death #defying

A child can escape the shadows. ↗

— Steve Largent

#escape #shadows

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#escaped #hourglass #life #more #our

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#escape #even #forms #guilty #law

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#because #best #change #clears #death

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#escape #learning #must #offer #poverty

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#care #escape #fills #general #humanity

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#childhood #escape #existence #here #i