Quotes About Escape

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

Life is simply a vacation from the infinite

The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.

It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.

Reading is such a huge part of my life.

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

I'd a million times rather live and risk and have it all end badly than stay in the box I've been in for the past two years.

I'm going to run away now," says Gat. "Don't take it personally." "Okay." "It's better for the starting over if I run. Because walking will just be awkward." "I said okay." "Okay, then." And he runs.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.