Quotes About Escape

Susanna's music touched the bawdy stringsOf those white elders; but, escaping,Left only Death's ironic scraping.Now, in its immortality, it playsOn the clear viol of her memory,And makes a constant sacrament of praise.

There would still remain the never-resting mind, So that one would want to escape, come back To what had been so long composed. The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

Not to be too dogmatic, I don't believe there is anything such thing as free verse, as long as the poet is using language, the poet can't break enough rules to escape and still be understood.

The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that's not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

Bücher sind das beste Schmerzmittel, um das Leben zu ertragen.

Komisch warm daß inmitten eines Wirklichkeit gewordenen Alptraums, in einem unterirdischen Schloß ohne Ausgang mir schon der Anblick von lesbarer Schrift ein Gefühl von Geborgenheit geben konnte. Deshalb mußte ich lachen, oh meine Freunde, schallend und anhaltend.

Having jettisoned all my ballast, I concentrated on escaping.

Lesen, lesen, immer nur lesen und darüber die eigene erbärmliche Existenz vergessen!

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

You think such an attitude is admirable. Manly, heroic even. 'Lived harmlessly.' 'Kept to himself.' Hide away somewhere and your past will cease to exist. You won't have to account for it. You'll feel no obligation to explain your actions or justify them because you've gone away and you expect your victims to go away too. It's like leaving the scene of an accident . . . Or a marriage. Even a field of battle.

In one of his lectures on creativity, the comedian John Cleese talked about the need to find one's own "tortoise enclosure"—that19 sheltered, quiet place where you can go for extended periods to escape from the distractions of the outside world so that you can think without interruption.

Now I'm hiding in Honduras/ I'm a desperate man/ Send lawyers, guns and money/ The shit has hit the fan — lyrics from Lawyers, Guns and Money song. Copyright © Warren Zevon 1978

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

If ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind, in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt, where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed. —Washington Irving, "The Mutability of Literature

It was here I usually retired to banquet on my novels

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.

Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out.

Waylon said it best when he sang to Willy; 'If you see me gettin' smaller, I'm leavin' don't be grievin', just gotta get away from here. If you see me gettin' smaller, don't worry, I'm in no hurry I've got the right to disappear.

the world could be wonderfully exotic when viewed through the bottom of a cocktail glass.