Quotes About Escape

My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

The movies saved my life. I grew up in the great depression, the only child of a pair of star crossed lovers. My father lost his job. My mother drank. They fought. The movies were my escape.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Getting a TV in my bedroom was something that I decided to do five months into the pandemic because I was finally, like, You know what? I might as well make my apartment feel like a hotel room.

Your library is your paradise.

Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.

Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll go to Paris!'

I have a lot of friends in Paris, and I love to get away from home.

When I don't have the time to be in the Himalayas, I am in Bombay, Los Angles or N.Y. or Paris or wherever.

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

En wat is nu de moraal van dit verhaal?' vroeg Minkovski. 'Dat een slimme Jood zich uit elke onaangename situatie weet te redden,' zei Zinnenoff.

escape is the byword—forwards, backwards, or sideways—into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the immediate future seem even more frightening today

If I didn't act quickly I'd be forced to face the consequences of what had happened every day of the week. I decided to do what any maladjusted commitmentphobe would do. I decided to run away to africa.

What is life except excuse for death, or death except escape from life?' Recall my name with kindness now and then.

I loved my dreams more than reality.

Few killer viruses are more difficult to discern than this one. On the surface all appears to be healthy and working, but it's not. All those hours and hours spent lost in one Christian book after another . . . all those many Christian responsibilities outside the home or going from one seminar to another . . . all that extra time in prayer and Bible study. . . . At times we use these Christian activities as an unconscious attempt to escape from pain. In

She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people's lives. That was release.

Your home is within your control. It should be the place where you escape all negative forces in the world. Your home should be the antidote to stress, not the cause.

The longer it takes me to track you down, the more hope you have of escaping.

PREDATORS RUN FOR THEIR DINNER. PREY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES.