Quotes About Escape

Everything was a trap, and the more Vaughn fought to escape, the more he got entangled.

Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.

When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

Your lucky your brains didn't escape right out of there before you got it patched up. Brains like to go their own way sometimes.

He narrowly avoided tragedy by dying.

What better place to kill time than a library?

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.

Reading can be dangerous.

Book lover n. 1. A person devoted to reading 2. One who would rather stay inside and read than go outside and play. 3. Someone who gets lost in a story and loves to dream with open eyes. Beware: never disturb a book lover when he/she is reading. Results can be fatal.

Now he felt that it would be for him an illegitimate escape from responsibility if he were to avoid the growing contacts with the political and military resistance movement. Not that everyone ought to act as he did, but in his position he saw no possibility of escape any longer into sinlessness and innocence. The sins of the bourgeoisie became clear in the flight from responsibility.

And yet the winds of time were blowing; heedless of mankind they blew to and fro in the world preying upon beauty; and no one could escape them, not even children so newly born as to be still unnamed.

If, on the other hand, our prompting are awards a withdrawal on to the Mystical Path, let us ask ourselves honestly whether we are following that Path because the call of God in our hearts is so strong, or because we have found life so difficult that we want to escape for ever from its problems.

The smell of hurrying passed my nostrils with the smell of sea water and fresh fish wind, there was history which had taught my eyes to look for escape even beneath the almond leaves fat as women, the conch shell tiny as sand, the rock stone old like water. I learned to read this from a woman whose hand trembled at the past, then even being born to her was temporary, wet and thrown half dressed among the dozens ofbrown legs itching to run.

The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Because books, my friends, are true magic bound between two covers.

To commit suicide to escape a problem just amplifies that problem that they will have to live through again. They are not escaping anything, they are just making it worse upon themselves. They are really not solving anything, they are simply creating more problems. Suicide is no solution.

They covered their walls with beautiful paintings for the same reason they drank—to distract themselves from the abyss.

I think you get so involved in the lives of the people you write about so you can avoid dealing with your own," she said.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

And out the door she flew

As for corruption, who's more corrupt—the seller or the buyer? And how corrupt does a society have to be when its citizens need to get high to escape their reality, at the cost of bloodshed and suffering of their neighbors?

Better to get away light than get caught heavy.