Quotes About Escape

Os meus sonhos são um refúgio estúpido, como um guarda-chuva contra um raio.

I hide behind the door, so that Reality won't see me when it enters.

And then I feel an overwhelming, absurd desire for a kind of Satanism before Satan, a desire that one day – a day without time or substance – an escape leading outside of God will be discovered, and our deepest selves will somehow cease participating in being and non-being.

Let us flee, my love, from being ourselves… Let us never remove from our finger the magic ring that summons, when turned, the fairies of silence and the elves of darkness and the gnomes of oblivion…

A melhor maneira de começar a sonhar é mediante livros. Os romances servem de muito para o principiante. Aprender a entregar-se totalmente à leitura, a viver absolutamente com as personagens de um romance, eis o primeiro passo. Que a nossa família e as suas mágoas nos pareçam chilras e nojentas ao lado dessas, eis o sinal do progresso.

Travel is for those who cannot feel.

A arte serve de fuga para a sensilidade que a acção teve de esquecer.

72] 381 Down the steps of my dreams and my weariness, descend from your unreality, descend and be my substitute for the world.

As with all tragedies, the real tragedy of my life is just an irony of Fate. I reject life because it is a prison sentence, I reject dreams as being a vulgar form of escape. Yet I live the most sordid and ordinary of real lives and the most intense and constant of dream lives. I'm like a slave who gets drunk during his rest hour - two miseries inhabiting one body.

I am the escaped one. My soul seeks me/ through hills and valley/ I hope my soul/ never finds me.

The value of art is that it takes us away from here.

I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

A fat yellow moon appeared in the branches of the fig tree as if it were going to roost there with the chickens. He said that a man had to escape to the country to see the world whole and that he wished he lived in a desolate place like this where he could see the sun go down every evening like God made it to do.

He said that a man had to escape to the country to see the world whole and that he wished he lived in a desolate place like this where he could see the sun go down every evening like God made it to do.

Sve, pa i ona sama, bilo joj je nesnosno. Želela je da odleti kao ptica, da ode nekuda da se podmladi, daleko, daleko, u prostore bez ijedne pegice.

I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.

I never came out to the Hamptons when I was younger - it was always a fancy and exotic place.

I think that there should be more artists that want to be the escape for people, for the fans, for the public.

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

I absolutely love reading; it is a fantastic way of unwinding.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

I do like fantasy films.

I like fantasy.