Quotes About Escape

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

I lasted about an hour before the naming of the Valar drove me to exercise.

But no escape is possible. Capital shrinks space, compresses time.

The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care, And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.

fleeing into an imagined past

sometimes vacation together.

There are, of course, three ways to hide behind a sofa.

sit within five rows of an exit. Memorize an escape plan. And perhaps most important of all: try to relax.

I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.

All adolescents want to escape from home into the world, not vice versa as adults do. The suburbs naturally mark a front line of conflict between teenagers and parents, a clash of values and aspirations.

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

Devii ner?bd?tor s? traversezi cît mai repede via?a, pentru a sc?pa de oameni.

M]y father discourag'd me by ridiculing my performances, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. So I escaped being a poet, most probably a very bad one.

There was a man who disliked seeing his footprints and his shadow. He decided to escape from them, and began to run. But as he ran along, more footprints appeared, while his shadow easily kept up with him. Thinking he was going too slowly, he ran faster and faster without stopping, until he finally collapsed from exhaustion and died. If he had stood still, there would have been no footprints. If he had rested in the shade, his shadow would have disappeared.

I find the answers aren't so clear Wish I could find a way to disappear

Do unto others, then run.

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

I take refuge in my books.

I have many reasons why I think reading is really important. It provided for me a refuge, especially during difficult times. It provided me with the notion that I could find an ending that was different from what was happening to me at the time.

We need to work with the other countries in the hemisphere so that they also have refugee policies in place so that people have a place to go and can escape the violence in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.

The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature - that lots of people ever came across - were in 'The Iliad': the escape of Aeneas with his father on his back, the Trojans, from their burning city, and the defeat of their kingdom and what they had to do to try and find safety.

In North Korea, it was actually an oppressive regime and that's why I escaped with my life.