“No one escapes from life alive.”

“There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.”

“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”

“the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats…”

“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.”

“Life is difficult. Life is difficult for everyone. No one escapes problems. Its called life.”

“And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it,
neither brave man nor coward, I tell you—
it's born with us the day that we are born.”

“Literature does not reflect life, but it doesn't escape or withdraw from life either: it swallows it.”

“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”

“One cannot escape from the effects of one's past karma. But if a person lives a prayerful life, he gets off with only the prick of a thorn in the leg where he was to suffer from a deep cut.”