Quotes About Escape

Hate has always been the blinder used by those who own slaves. It allows those they enslave to only see those who escaped the yoke, and not the one that sits holding the reins. The moment you hear anyone fear-mongering and pointing fingers, you should look for the shackle on your ankle." "Don't

Thus the elaborate web of rules, which, if followed to the letter, would paralyze human life entirely, is equally elaborately unraveled by Manu through the escape clauses. Every knot tied in one verse is untied in another verse; the constrictive fabric that he weaves in the central text he unweaves in the subtext of apad, as Penelope in Homer's Odyssey carefully unwove at night what she had woven in the day.

Kau tidak pernah tahu apa yang akan kau ketahui saat membuka sebuah buku. Dan jika isinya adalah suatu cerita, kau akan tenggelam kedalamnya. Kemudian, kau akan tinggal disana beberapa saat, bukannya-kau tahu-tinggal disini.

Pizza and a movie (Escape to Witch Mountain, my all-time Disney favorite)

You never know what you'll learn when you open one. And if it's a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.

Why would anyone run unless he was being chased?

She felt like a tiger in a cage, trying to burst free.

In Italy we were placed in a refugee camp, but then managed to escape. We found a Syrian guy who agreed to drive us to Denmark for 500 euros per person.

She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn't leave a hangover.

My wings got bigger than the cage.

Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.

On that day, the library was transformed from a confusing and intimidating collection of books into a thousand different portals through time and space to fantastic worlds for me to explore.*

i'd like to dream my troubles all away on a bed of California stars.

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

Das Angenehme an meinem Grauen ist, dass sich meine Innenwelt mehr und mehr vor die Außenwelt schiebt und dass mich unter dem Eindruck dieser Verschiebung die Außenwelt immer weniger interessiert. Es durchflutet mich ein angenehmes Gefühl des Entkommenseins.

An egotism like an eggshell is a thing from which to escape; the art of life is that escape. The fundamental art of life is to recover the sense of that great self-forgetful continuous life from which we have individually budded off. Many people have done this through religion, which begins with a tremendous clamour to some saviour god or other to recognise us and ends in our recognition of him;

I'm afraid of you, little man, very much afraid, because the future of mankind depends on you. I'm afraid of you because your main aim in life is to escape--from yourself.

Così scoprì la virtù paradossale della lettura, che è quella di astrarci dal mondo per trovargli un senso.

Un libro ben scelto ti salva da qualsiasi cosa, persino da te stesso.

Sentí muy pronto las ganas de huir... ¿Pero hacia dónde? Confusión. Huir de mí mismo, digamos, y sin embargo, seguir siendo yo mismo. Pero en un yo que hubiera sido aceptable para los demás.

La prigione è il presente. Il presente è ciò da cui cercavano di fuggire quelli che sono in prigione.

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

Haz como el computador: cuando te encuentres demasiado agobiado, hunde esc y vete.