The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.
Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church Fathers. For that very reason, the urge to seek a path of spiritual light can be a subtle temptation to sin. It certainly is sin if it means a frank rejection of the burden of our age, an escape into unreality and spiritual illusion, so as not to share the misery of other men.
Imagination is always greater than reality, and the reality of a sex paradise is that they offer a supposed escape from the nightmare of repressive society.
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.
people commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.
Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.