Quotes About Escape

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality.

Life is a vacation from two eternities.

Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

No science fiction or fantasy is going to help me. I live in a too-real world.

Gilda was no longer fleeing for her life.

Whoo!! What a day. I'm gonna drink tang until I forget it all.

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

I heard the distant whistle of a passing train, and I wished I could get on it and go far away, to a place without struggle meetings, without class status, without confessions.

I read all of those books I always wanted to read, or reread... And I feel full. Until I finish a book. Then I feel a certain desperation to start a new one. To have company.

When Benjamin Franklin began writing his autobiography, in 1771, he turned the story of his own escape—running away from his apprenticeship to his brother James—into a metaphor for the colonies' growing resentment of parliamentary rule.

DURING THE WAR, nearly one in five slaves in the United States left their homes, fleeing American slavery in search of British liberty.

Study hard, little one. For if you can read, you can slip into the pages of a book and escape into your mind.

Books are the tickets to faraway places. To adventure and friends everywhere; and the best part is that you can travel the world without even leaving your chair.

My only relief is to sleep. When I'm sleeping, I'm not sad, I'm not angry, I'm not lonely, I'm nothing.

This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Took cover. In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.