Quotes About Escape

To all the readers, whom despite the attraction of tv, of internet, of family troubles, of video games, of sport, of night clubs, have found some hours so we can all dream together.

Só que fugir não é só correr de um lugar, mas também chegar a outro.

Seulement voilà: fuir n'est pas seulement partir, c'est aussi arriver quelque part.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Why do people read? The answer, as regards the great majority, is: 'They don't.

Unless we can so enlarge our interests as to include the whole outer world, we remain like a garrison in the beleaguered fortress, knowing that the enemy prevents escape and that ultimate surrender is inevitable.

the man who seeks intoxication, in whatever form, has given up hope except in oblivion.

Then they may come to their senses and escape the Devil's trap, having been captured by him to do his will. 2 Timothy 2:26

Some women facing 'honour' crimes require relocation far outside the reaches of their extended families and changes of identity to escape detection.

The best thing ever is when some guy in his 50s taps me on the shoulder and says, 'I just want to let you know I hate my job, I hate my wife, and I come home and I watch reruns of your show and it's the only half hour of the day when I laugh and I forget how miserable life is.'

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

I miss the racing hugely. If you told me I could go off and do it tomorrow afternoon I would. For me that's always been my way of shutting everything off and relaxing.

Hearing that people read my books when they were sick, or that the books helped them find an escape when they were having a hard time... stuff like that makes all the hard work pay off.

Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It's another world. An escape.

Telltale signs that your movie is going to go bad is, one, the producer of the movie flees the country.

I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people.

I tried to leave the city once, for one of those other places. And, my God, the silence. I could hear myself think, and found that I wasn't. I am not designed to be lonely as a cloud.

The gym was my only refuge. I could put music on and dance around with my girlfriends and be silly.

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

It's always been my dream to sing for Simon Cowell, plus I wanted to get out of Finland.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

I will gladly shell out $24.95 or $9.99 or 99 cents on iTunes to read or see or listen to the 24-karat treasure that you have refined from your pain and your vision and your imagination. I need it. We all do. We're struggling here in the trenches. That beauty, that wisdom, those thrills and chills, even that mindless escape on a rainy October afternoon — I want it. Put me down for it.