"escape the thought" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to purposely avoid or ignore a certain thought or idea. Example: After breaking up with John, Sarah tried to escape the thought of him by focusing on her work and spending time with friends.
And I would think about him every second — even the spaces between seconds (the Internet makes it possible, even probable, that you'll never escape the thought of someone).
It is hard to escape the thought that this ambitious young man was not inconvenienced by the loss of his slum-dwelling family.
The public cannot escape the thought that our government leaders regard these agencies as outsiders, and that they are hesitant to take command of them.
It might be an idyllic place to spend her last hours, yet she can't escape the thought that someone would have to put her body in the car afterward and drive it back to town.
Seeing that enormous expanse, he couldn't escape the thought that maybe the troubles in the place he came from stemmed from the fact that there simply wasn't enough room for everybody.
But a bad joke remains a bad joke no matter why you tell it and it's hard to escape the thought that O'Flynn, too, is capable of doing a much more impressive job.
When we spoke on the phone, Job told me he had acted in order to escape the dark thoughts that controlled his life.
The motion picture houses we ourself have haunted in the devotional hours of our afternoons, to escape the ordeal of thought, if piled on top of one another would dwarf Olympus.
No political speech defending national identities, expressing pride in national history or opposing the spread of migration and the universal danger to freedom posed by the relentless Islamisation of our continent will now escape the wrath of the thought-police.
During which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, wipe out identification with thoughts and escape the interminable chatter that goes on in our heads.
Having your hands in the dirt and repeating tasks such as weeding or planting focuses your energy and allows you the freedom to escape the normal background noise of thoughts and feelings".
