Quotes About Escape

And the tuberculosis old men At the Nelson wheeze and cough And someone will head south Until this whole thing cools off … —Tom Waits, "Small Change

We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes.

What you do, boy, is get the money and get as far away from here as you can. Don't even stay for your brother's funeral. It might end up being yours also. So start running and maybe one day you and me both will be thankful for what's happening. I don't know. I know your mother deserves more than a double funeral. When your mother talks to you, I hope you will keep this between us. It won't matters if she knows I'm the one who made Jimmy pay for his ugliness.

What you do, boy, is get the money and get as far away from here as you can. Don't even stay for your brother's funeral. It might end up being yours also. So start running and maybe one day you and me both will be thankful for what's happening. I don't know. I know your mother deserves more than a double funeral. When your mother talks to you, I hope you will keep this between us. It won't help matters if she knows I'm the one who made Jimmy pay for his ugliness.

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one.

At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.

When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life

Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.

I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.