Quotes About Escape

You are here to experience life, not to escape from it.

I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

There's something to be said about sitting in front of the TV and being removed from your own life and just pushed into another one.

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

My life is like a Harley Ride. When I'm on my bike that's really one of the places I feel completely at home.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things.

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.

In water, like in books—you can leave your life.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.