Break Out quotes
81 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one."
"Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity."
"Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works."
"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."
"The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others."
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"I once locked my keys out of my car. I had to break out of my car with a coat hanger."
"War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start."
"This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly."
"Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side."
"When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue."
"I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks."
"The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of."
"Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird."
"And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly."
"With the world's unprecedented inspections and access to Iran's program, we'll know if Iran ever tries to break out."
"I can't say what I'm going to wear all the time. The minute that I say that, then there's something in me that tips off and then I need to break out of that."
"I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out."
"Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains."
"Every time I break out of what is expected of me and do what feels right, I feel stronger."
"You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that."
"A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be."
"I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back."
