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Quotes About Escape

I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.
~ Catherine Opie
Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.
~ Charles Baudelaire
For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.
~ Cynthia Kadohata
I spend most of my free time under the house.
~ David Letterman
Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time.
~ Hunter Hayes
I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.
~ Stephenie Meyer
It's amazing how I'm able to ride around on a bike. People kind of see it's me but since I'm on a bike, they think, "No, it's not her." And by the time they realize it's me, I'm already gone.
~ Beyonce Knowles
Going into the woods alone is the best way to pretend you're in another time. It's a thing you can only do alone. If there's somebody else with you, it's too easy to remember where you really are.
~ Carol Rifka Brunt
Thanks a lot! She went and hid somewhere else, somewhere safe- and left me to deal with Mr. Pyromaniac 1483!
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Luke thought he'd been escaping danger when he took Lee Grant's identity. Why did he suddenly feel like he'd only traded one peril for another?
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Love having another world to think of!
~ Margaret Weis
The way out of a trap is to know the way the trap is built. Only then will it cease being a trap.
~ Marguerite Beecher
I answered that what I wanted more than anything else in the world was to write, nothing else but that, nothing. Jealous. She's jealous. No answer, just a quick glance immediately averted, a slight shrug, unforgettable. I'll be the first to leave. There are still a few years to wait before she loses me, loses this one of her children. For the sons there's nothing to fear. But this one, she knows, one day she'll go, she'll manage to escape.
~ Marguerite Duras
Perhaps you'll escape. Day and night, this obsession. It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are.
~ Marguerite Duras
Un hombre que lee, que piensa o que calcula, pertenece a la especie y no al sexo; en sus mejores momentos llega a escapar de lo humano.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Bardzo ?le czu?bym si? w ?wiecie bez ksi??ek, ale rzeczywisto?ci w ksi??kach nie ma, bo si? w nich w ca?o?ci nie mie?ci.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Adaptar-me-ia dificilmente a um mundo sem livros, mas a realidade não está ali, porque eles não a contêm inteira.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
There was no point trying to escape her loneliness through a new interest.
~ Marian Keyes
In order to escape the illusion and find inner peace, remember that only love in a situation is real.
~ Marianne Williamson
En Dios encontramos el escape, porque Él ha enviado al Espíritu Santo a reunir nuestros corazones y corregir nuestra forma de pensar. Él puede desarmar nuestro sistema de pensamiento basado en el miedo y reemplazarlo por un sistema de pensamiento basado en el amor. Él nos dará una mente nueva.
~ Marianne Williamson
Defending against being overwhelmed by your emotions, you actually create emotions that are overwhelming. You begin by trying to keep your emotions at bay, eat them, go numb instead of feeling them—and in so doing, create a situation that causes you an endless run of painful emotions. By trying to escape your feelings, you create a whole slew of them that will arrive full force once you realize what you've done. The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.
~ Marianne Williamson
Bara människor utan visioner flyr in i verkligheten.
~ Marie Darrieussecq
He was so intent on running away from the specter of his parents' life that he had never stopped to properly consider what he should have been running toward. Teddy
~ Marie-Elena John
And Iris was far too beautiful to escape the appetite of the men—or the expectation of the women, seeking respite from that most tedious and taxing of their household duties.
~ Marie-Elena John