Quotes About Escape

My shoulders hunch even harder. I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as Dandelion seeds - no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

Enough words! The criminals are escaping, we the victims, we stand still.

You'll never find a man on Earth, if a god leads him on, who can escape his fate.

The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.

Oblivion—what a blessing ... for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.

PHI.: All winds are fair to him who flies from woe.

And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest, nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared, as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused as anxiety does, which never lets him escape, neither by diversion nor by noise, neither at work nor at play, neither by day nor at night.

Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.

What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.

Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.

It's never a good thing when the black volhv says "Uh-oh" and then runs for his life.

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.

You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.