Famous quotes containing the words escape and/or attempts:
“It is always fair sailing when you escape evil.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)