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Escaped Quotes

On slipping away, breaking free, and starting over.

To escape can mean fleeing danger, slipping past a difficult childhood, or retreating into imagination when reality feels too heavy. This collection covers all of it, including a few reflections on the harder side of Family circumstances people manage to rise above.

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.

Quotes by Evan Davis

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

Quotes by Elinor Wylie

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

Quotes by Edward St Aubyn

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.

Quotes by Edward Carpenter

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

Quotes by Eben Alexander

I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.

Quotes by Douglas Tompkins

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

Quotes by Danny Boyle

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Quotes by Coco Chanel

I'm a living testament to the value of immigration. I escaped a civil war, and I came to Canada as a refugee, and they gave my family protection. I did my best to pay that country back, and I think...

Quotes by Chamath Palihapitiya

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.

Quotes by Cecil Frank Powell

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

Quotes by Camille Paglia

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

Quotes by Brian Bosworth

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

Quotes by Bhagat Singh

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

Quotes by Bella Heathcote

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

Quotes by Barbara Amiel

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

Quotes by Aulus Gellius

My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.

Quotes by Arundhati Roy

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return...

Quotes by Anthony Hecht

Baseball was popular in the summer, but hockey was big most of the time. With five brothers, you never escaped it. We had an indoor rink in our town, and all the boys would play on it right through high...

Quotes by Anne Murray

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the "Escaped Quotes" page about?
It gathers quotes about escaping in different senses — from real emergencies and childhood hardship to imaginative escapes and even plants that spread beyond a garden's edge.
Are these quotes about literal emergencies?
One touches on a real incident involving a safety issue that had to be addressed quickly, showing how "escaped" can describe something serious slipping out of control.
Do any quotes describe escaping into imagination?
Yes, one reflects on building an entire imaginative world as a refuge from a difficult challenge in school, showing how escape can be creative rather than physical.
Is family hardship a theme in this collection?
A couple of quotes touch on rising above difficult family circumstances, which connects with the reflections found in our Family quotes.
Where can I find more quotes about emotional resilience?
Browse our Feel quotes collection for more on navigating difficult emotions.

Other lines take a lighter turn, exploring how something as ordinary as a garden plant can escape its bounds and take on a life of its own. Browse Feel quotes for more on emotional escape, or Best quotes for further inspiration.