Quotes About Escape

When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor.

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.

A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

[Art is] an attempt to escape from life.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

Music has always been a big part of my life. It's kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it to get away.

Let's fly away and live forever

I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that's beckoning to you.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

When mice run, cats give chase.

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.