No Escape Quotes

“The car was waiting for him, and in twenty minutes, he passed under the Broken Heart sign that used to read Tender Oak. Edward found it ironic that it was March. The harvest would begin soon. He’d first arrived at this place seventy-five years ago at the age of ten, in March, just before the harvest.”
― Steven Decker, One More Life to Live

“This man suffered too much. He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. When I had a chance I begged him to try and leave while there was time; I offered to go back with him. And he would say yes, and then he would remain...”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“This is Hell, isn't it?"
"The closest I've ever come," Sam replied. "But don't give up yet. We might still make it out of here."
"That's the thing about Hell, once you're admitted, there is no escape.”
― Kayla Krantz, Blood Moon

“There’s one last reason why none of us ever tries to escape. There are a few of us who just don’t have anywhere else to go.”
― Jason Medina, No Hope For The Hopeless At Kings Park

“How irrevocably spoilt, down to its minutest detail, his world was now. Even the countryside was spoilt, the animals, the birds, the flowers. There was nowhere to run to.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“It is a plague of unprecedented proportions. Anyone, who is unfortunate enough to become infected by its deadly parasites, is transformed into a mindless carrier with an inane desire to feed and spread the virus to other potential hosts. Even death is no escape.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go on and on and nothing would stop it. And no one from now on for ever would know how much he suffered and what it was really like to be him.

How can I bear it, he thought, how can I go on bearing it without becoming something savage and awful?”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“That too was part of a machine from which she had not, for all her 'feelings' and her 'principles', the spirit or the courage really to escape.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“You have paid the cover charge thousands of times over
with your lives
and now you are afraid

you can never get out.”
― Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses

“And that's the thing, right? At a certain point, there is no escape. There is no starting over. Do you want to die alone or is it better to have someone there? Even if it's not some ideal romantic situation, it's preferable to being alone!

Real love doesn't happen to everyone. It's luck! I've never had it. And I guess I never will.”
― Noah Van Sciver, The Lizard Laughed

“The problem was me.
If you are the problem, then no matter where you go the problem will come along for the ride. Whatever dream you follow, whatever supposedly virgin territory you travel to, and however many times you tell yourself that it's unblemished: if you are the problem there is no escape.”
― Rebecca Schiller, A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir

“There would be no escape for them, only infection.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“I’ll be damned if I am getting trapped in another borough of this city!”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“I am no warrior at all and dislike any thought of battle; but waiting on the edge of one that I can’t escape is worst of all.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) [BBC Radio Drama]

“But no man has ever truly escaped his destiny. Jonah always goes to Nineveh.”
― Abbigayle Grace, Winter in Deglendark Valley

“He had even tried the violin a few years earlier. Anything to switch talents, but there was no escape. The compulsion was identical to that of any composer or poet for whom the meaning of his life was creation. One could only wonder what Picasso would have done to the world if he had been born a physicist. Terrifying thought . . .”
― Romain Gary, The Gasp