Part I, ch. 2
Variant: "Forget about what you are escaping from," he said, quoting an old maxim of Kornblum's. "Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to."
Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say”
Variant: You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.
Source: The Alchemist
“There'd been no escape. What did she so desire to escape from?”
Source: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Chapter 1
Context: There'd been no escape. What did she so desire to escape from? Such a captive maiden, having plenty of time to think, soon realizes that her tower, its height and architecture, are like her ego only incidental: and what really keeps her where she is is magic, anonymous and malignant, visited upon her from outside and for no reason at all. Having no apparatus except gut fear and female cunning to examine this formless magic, to understand how it works, how to measure its field strength, count its lines of force, she may fall back on superstition, or take up a useful hobby like embroidery, or go mad, or marry a disc jockey. If the tower is everywhere and the knight of deliverance no proof against its magic, what else?
“What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.”
Source: The Devil's Right Hand
Source: Parable of the Talents
As quoted in Bruce Lee: Artist of Life (1999) edited by John R. Little, p. 192
“Before you can escape from your burrow you must know you are trapped. Then there's a chance.”
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
“Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own”
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book IX
Homily during the Holy Mass on Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts, on 1 October 1979, during the pope's first apostolic journey to the United States
Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/homilies/1979/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19791001_usa-boston_en.html
