Quotes About Escape

Lincoln must have welcomed the chance that evening to escape from such friends, if only to submit to a final fitting for the recently delivered inaugural suit from the Chicago tailors Titsworth & Brother.

Boredom . . . is one of the reasons that both men and women walk out the door and never come back.

Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night

Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to...

I thought we were just people. I have no idea." Her uncle smiled, and an unholy light appeared in his eyes. He's gonna skate off now, she thought. I can never catch him and bring him back.

I felt the starched walls of a pink cotton penitentiary closing in on me, and for the second time in my life I thought of running away.

Debían de ser las dos. La luna se ponía y las sombras de los listones de madera de las ventanas se disolvían en una nada borrosa. El blanco faldón de la camisa de Jem bajaba y subía como un pequeño fantasma bailarín que quisiera escapar de la mañana que se acercaba.

If I didn't have to stay I'd leave.

Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?

The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.

When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.

I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.

Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody's reach. A place beyond the flow of time." - But there's no place like that in this world. - Exactly. Which is why I'm living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.

Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It's like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura

I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void.

Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go someplace where you don't know a soul? Sometimes I feel like doing that. I really really want to do it sometimes.

And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.

What did it mean for a person to be free? she would often ask herself. Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.