Quotes About Escape

When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?

One way to escape the universe in which everything is a kind of media cartoon is to write about the part of your life that doesn't feel like a cartoon, and how the cartoon comes into it.

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.

You get a little stir crazy during the week.

Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity.

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.

When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

The bullet we're running from is almost never the one that hits us

Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.

True balm [of fantasy] takes away the painful irritation of life and simply heals, allowing one to begin anew. And that is what fantasy can do for us.

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.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

I've always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.

Who need to read about real life when there's dragons. Come on!

It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.

I grew up in a sad, depressed place. I got out. Poetry saved my life.