Quotes About Escape

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows

Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.

The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.

Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Is the cinema more important than life?

We all use the future to escape the present.

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

My normal life is like being on holiday.

True life is elsewhere

In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

Don't you want to know where I'd go if I could?" Not really, I think. "Where would you go if you could go anywhere?" It comes out bitchier than I mean for it to. He leans forward over the handlebars, eyes on me. "I'd go to Hoosier Hill with a beautiful girl." A

Jessamyn West said, 'Writing is so difficult that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can't get out. Everything slows down— the noise and the racing of my thoughts.

Maybe this time I'll do it—let the air carry me away. It will be like floating in a pool, drifting off until there's nothing.

What were you doing up on that ledge?" It comes out a whisper. "The same thing you were. I wanted to see what it was like. I wanted to imagine jumping off it. I wanted to leave all the shit behind. But when I did start to imagine it, I didn't like what it looked like. And then I saw you.

I feel like I just walked through the back of the wardrobe and into Narnia.

Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can't get out. Everything slows down—the noise and the racing of my thoughts.