Quotes About Escape

El imperativo urgente del momento era huir, al menos por un tiempo, al sueño y al olvido.

There are all kinds of flight from responsibility. There is a flight into death, a flight into sickness, and finally a flight into stupidity.

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.

I would wash the dust of the world in a soft green flood. Here between sea and sea in a fairy wood, I have found a delicate wave-green solitude.

But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it" (1Co 10:13).

You've got to know how to howl to give yourself an escape route.

Os livros são portas que te levam para a rua (...). Com eles aprendes, educas-te, viajas, sonhas, imaginas, vives outras vidas e multiplicas a tua por mil. Quem te oferece mais por menos (...)? E também servem para manter à distância muitas coisas negativas (...) Às vezes interrogo-me como conseguem superar as coisas, aquelas [pessoas] que não lêem.

Books are doors that lead out into the street," Patricia would tell her. "You learn from them, educate yourself, travel, dream, imagine, live other lives, multiply your own life a thousand times. Where can you get more for your money, Mexicanita? And they also keep all sorts of bad things at bay: ghosts, loneliness, shit like that.

de vez en cuando el género humano necesite irse un rato al carajo. Irse bien ido, y que alguien dé un empujoncito para facilitar el viaje. Tal

one is never alone with a book nearby

Fucking incredible! Four miles in five minutes, with a slight maneuver to avoid an oil barge anchored halfway in. And when the HJ peeled away and abandoned the pursuit and the helicopter began to fall back and gain altitude, Teresa stood up in the middle of the speedboat and, still illuminated by the spotlight, lifted a triumphant single finger. Adiós Cabróooon.

A fin de cuentas, por mucho que nuble, la sombra siempre termina despuntando cosida a los pies de uno. Y nadie puede escapar de su propia sobra.

Huir sólo sirve para morir cansado y sin honra.

Le complacía la paz conseguida cada vez que cerraba la portezuela de un taxi. Era lo más parecido a una tregua con el mundo exterior: todo en suspenso, al otro lado de la ventanilla, durante el trayecto. Apoyó la cabeza en el respaldo, encantado con la perspectiva.

Aversion is the most evident reason for the runaway.

The jeweler allows me to wear the sapphire blue lake on my finger, emerald green leaves around my neck, and take the citrine sunset with me wherever I go. Jewelry has become my daytime link to nature in an office with no windows. And if I have to work late, there's nothing like diamond stars and a pearl full moon against an onyx night sky.

Paris is always a good idea.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

You could say she hid there, in the words, an escape within an escape...

If there was ever a time to run, it's whenever you see me show up.

They could come after me, I guess, but it doesn't matter- I'm good at escapes. Maybe into the sewers, like the old days. It doesn't matter. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.

Faith is denial, or the metaphor Idiotcy, hence it always fails. To make their bondage more secure Governments force religion down the throats of their slaves, and it always suceeds; those who escape it are but few, therefore their honour is the greater. When faith perishes, the "Self" shall come into its own.

Good riddance, Yulan must have thought, to finally leave the one-room shack and her in-laws behind.)

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.