Quotes About Escape

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.

I dont know what it is about the open road that makes it so appealing. Maybe its because when youre headed somewhere, you dont have to be where youve already been.

Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.

It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It's not their fault, but I couldn't do that any longer.

Love. It's too hard. That's why I listen to music.

one of the lounge chairs. Serena

Oh I wish I had a river to skate away on.

The escape from tyranny is often followed not by Paradise, but by a sojourn in the desert, aimless, confused and deprived.

A menudo, la huida de la tiranía no conduce al paraíso, sino a una estancia en el desierto, sin rumbo, en la confusión y la privación.

I know someone who was actually chased by a squirrel.)

My dream placed me at the centre of Being itself, and there was no escape. It took me months to understand what this meant. During this time, I came to a more complete, personal realization of what the great stories of the past continually insist upon: the centre is occupied by the individual.

Nuestros sistemas de ansiedad son sumamente prácticos y asumen que cualquier cosa de la que huyes es peligrosa.

This left him with a single remaining escape from nihilism and totalitarianism: the emergence of the individual strong enough to create his own values, project them onto valueless reality, and then abide by them.

S'adonà que anava a les palpentes, entossudit en una recerca estranya, probablement inútil. Però en part havia continuat fent allò per la mateixa raó del començament: no estar quiet, moure's, fer alguna cosa, fugir. Igual que en Raül?

Su mente volaba libre de espaldas al tiempo

Leer siempre la había relajado. Era un privilegio. Sumergirse en una buena novela equivalía a penetrar en otro mundo, olvidar, sentir, experimentar emociones únicas.

No mais fundo do seu coração ele tinha pena da desgraça de todos. E rindo, e ridicularizando, era que fugia da sua desgraça. Era como um remédio.

O Sem-Pernas sentia que uma angústia o tomava e que era impossível dormir. Se dormisse viriam os maus sonhos da cadeia. Queria que aparecesse alguém a quem ele pudesse torturar com dichotes. Queria uma briga. Pensou em ir acender um fósforo na perna de um que dormisse. Mas quando olhou da porta do trapiche, sentiu somente pena e uma doida vontade de fugir. E saiu correndo pelo areal, correndo sem fito, fugindo da sua angústia.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

Daydream is the only good thing in life. Everything else is vulgar and empty.

It's foolish to let my thoughts wander this way," he said, drawing himself up, "but daydream is the only good thing in life. Everything else is vulgar and empty.

he felt a glow of pleasure at the idea that here he would be too far out for the tidal wave of Parisian life to reach him, and yet near enough for the proximity of the capital to strengthen him in his solitude.

Quizá sea verdad que no piensas en nada, aunque no pensar en nada justamente en los momentos más íntimos es una defensa, Inés, una huida que te mantiene la mente en blanco, bloqueada por la ausencia de tu ser para que el miedo y las preguntas no se inscriban en ti...