Quotes About Escape

I retreated up the highway to a drive-in where I ate a torpedo sandwich.

People who expect the world to end very soon, and are planning on being raptured out of it, are not likely to be concerned about dominion over the earth, nor the application of God's law to the whole of life. Moreover, if such people believe, as they do, that Satan rules the world, they will regard their responsibilities to the world as negligible, and the world as something to escape from.

Books are a bit like time travel, aren't they? They can pick you up out of your life and put you in someone else's? It's just a shame that at some point you always have to come back.

When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. Put The Idiot in your lap or over your face, and you know where you are going to be for the afternoon.

Cada dia é um peso, é preciso matar o tempo, descobrir um jeito de não pensar, pois o pensamento dói, e vem uma vontade de beber, uma vontade de esquecer, uma vontade de morrer...

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.

If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain. If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape. I'm the lady you've looked for, write to me, and escape.

Her smiles were blurred, as if seen from a moving train. Her eyes always creased at the edges by dreams of leaving.

The best kind of walk, and this applies to the plains as well as to the hills, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.

Once you have lived with mountains, there is no escape. You belong to them.

It's safer in the jungle than in the town.

Once You Have Lived with the Mountains' it is not easy to live elsewhere. I longed to return to the hills and live in a place with windows facing beautiful views. That is what I explore in 'Best of All Windows'. For a room without a view is hardly a living place—merely a place of transit.

Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them, but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again, and the joy first derived from it will still be there.

The truth is, what we commonly call life is not life at all. Its routine and settled ways are the curse of life, and we will do almost anything to get away from the trivial, even if it is only for a few hours of forgetfulness in alcohol, drugs, forbidden sex, or golf.

jeweller left his shop and ran after us. So did Rocky.

Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure.

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.

I like pressing that emergency button on bus doors to escape.

That meant she had to find a way to slip out of the townhouse again without being caught in her

What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

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Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean, flee to my lodge in the hills.

All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.