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Quotes About Escape

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
~ Charles Bukowski
I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, over the hills and far away.
~ John Gray
It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
~ Edna Ferber, Gigolo
Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.
~ Jerry Smith
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
~ Ella Maillart
Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.
~ Jonathan Raban
When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.
~ Henry Miller
She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed.
~ Kiran Desai
I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.
~ Isabelle Eberhardt
I need a six month vacation twice a year.
~ Pete MacArthur
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
~ Anthony Bourdain
There are three very good reasons to travel: 1. See the world. 2. Meet new people. 3. Room service.
~ Linda Sunshine
Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.
~ Helen Van Slyke
I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.
~ Elvis Costello
I think I'm going to Katmandu, that's really, really where I'm going to
~ Bob Seger
I like to travel any chance I get, even if it's just a local vacation to San Diego or Palm Springs or wherever. I just like to get out and do stuff and see the world.
~ Christa B. Allen
If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.
~ Kyo Maclear, Virginia Wolf
When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away
~ Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.
~ Michelle Rodriguez
People who travel are always fugitives.
~ Daphne du Maurier
When I haven't been working I've tried to travel a lot.
~ Emma Watson
A travel agent told I could spend 7 nights in HAWAII no days just nights.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And so the travel writer is doing the traveling for you.
~ Paul Theroux
I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.
~ Carrie Fisher