Quotes About Escape

His mind, shrinking from reality, ran for safety along these unimportant details.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

Funny, just this minute he didn't want much to get away from the island.

suppose if something very terrible had happened, so terrible as to be almost unbearable, one might get like that. One might run away from reality into a half world of one's own and then, of course, after a time, one wouldn't be able to get back...

He never left the cinema very quickly. It always took him a moment or two to return to the prosaic reality of everyday life.

I think trees are much nicer than people, more restful.

It's well-nigh impossible, sir. But this particular escape was extraordinarily well planned and carried out. We haven't nearly got to the bottom of it yet.

I mounted her and she went off riding through the trees.

Adalar?n en iyi yan? insan?n istedi?i zaman kaçamamas?nda...

Quando se quer apanhar um coelho, mete-se-lhe uma doninha na toca, e se o coelho lá estiver, foge. Foi tudo o que fiz.

His whole personality seemed to change. The handsome, vigorous young man turned into a rat-like creature with furtive eyes looking for a way of escape and finding none…

Civilized misery, she thought, is the worse misery. Grey and hopeless. But now she thought, I shall escape.

Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.

When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

if he ever did meet his own doppel, he would gäng away in the opposite direction as fast as possible. More likely, from what he had heard about such meetings, neither man would be able to see the faintest resemblance to himself.

As the winds of the Great Depression blew across a Japan shaken to the very foundations of her economy, proletarian movements sprang up everywhere, including the field of fine art. At the other extreme was an art movement that advocated escape from the painful realities of the hard times, something that was called, in a sort of pidgin, "eroguro nan-sensu" ("erotic-grotesque nonsense").

You'll never be alone if you've got a book.

brand-new hot tub.

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

I was as you are now. A peasant. I sought the world. Because the alternative was to spend the rest of my life looking up a plowhorse's backside.

In the early dusk of winter, Mercier climbed into an Opel with German plates. The young driver called himself Stefan and said he was from an emigre family that had settled in Besancon. 'In thirty-three,' he added. 'The minute Hitler took power, my father got the suitcases down. He was a socialist politicians, and he knew what was coming. Then, after we settled in France, the people you work for showed up right away, they've kept me busy ever since.

I wanted us to have a holiday, not a ruddy breakdown.