Quotes About Escape

quickly found for myself two such blessings—the natural world, and the world of writing: literature. These were the gates through which I vanished from a difficult place.

Well, who knows. Who knows what hung, fluttering, at the window between him and the darkness. Anyway, Blake the hosier's son stood up and turned away from the sooty sill and the dark city— turned away forever from the factories, the personal strivings, to a life of the imagination.

turned away from the sooty sill and the dark city- turned away forever from the factories, the personal strivings, to a life of the imagination.

There are two sofas, and upon one, says Poe, the proprietor lies asleep. But it is sleep as Poe most sought and valued it-not for the sake of rest, but for escape. Sleep, too, is a kind of swooning out of this world.

You broke the cage and flew.

I quickly found for myself two such blessings - the natural world, and the world of literature. These were the gates through which I vanished from a difficult place.

But it is sleep as Poe most sought and valued it—not for the sake of rest, but for escape. Sleep, too, is a kind of swooning out of this world.

who knows what it dreamed of in the first springs of its life, escaping the cottontail's teeth and everything dangerous else. Who knows when supreme patience took hold, and the wind's wandering among its leaves was enough of motion, of travel.

Reading is the passport to countless adventures

Sloths don't move a lot, but when they need to escape from a predator, they can actually be pretty fast. They are also good swimmers.

Jack threw his stuff into his knapsack. He put it on and climbed out the window.

Reading is a passport to countless adventures

Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

Pero mis sueños eran sólo míos; no permitía que nadie entrara en ellos; eran mi refugio en el hastió y el placer más querido en la alegría.

take me where I may forget myself, my existence, and all the world.

He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable.

Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are

Reading gives us someplace to go when we must stay where we are.

The ideal way to ensure a healthy digestion is to go to the movies. The movie house is a place of truce, a non-combat area where, once the lights are dimmed and the film is running, the only reality is the movie itself. All the little realities of the individuals in the audience are canceled.

the Huragok worked to repair that AI in order to prop the city long up enough to escape.

Today sucks. I'm goin' back to bed.

How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music. How to feel time: write. How to release time: breathe.

It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.