Quotes About Escape

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading.

It was in that tree that I learned to read, filled with the passions that can only come to the bookish, grasping, very young, bewildered by almost all of what I read, sweating in the attempt to understand a world of adults I fled from in real life but desperately wanted to join in books. (I did not connect the grown men and women in literature with the grown men and women I saw around me. They were, to me, another species.)

Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home.

Th-they're following my tracks . . . ," and she could feel her breath being stolen from her body. She was going to die!

with the limb, joined the others, Lia gasped. The three men stood talking in low voices for several minutes, and then they drew closer, heads down, slowly following her muddy footprint trail. Lia breathed into the sat phone, "Th-they're following

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

He can run, but he can't hide.

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.

Organized religion has been of very little help in this crisis. In fact it has sometimes tended to make matters worse. The type of religion that emphasizes a supernatural world in such a way that one does not need to be concerned about the future of this world and all its peoples, offers a form of escape that makes it all the more difficult to solve our problems.