Quotes About Escape

Mis alas agitaron el aire y me llevaron cada vez más alto. Era como si estuviera alejándome del pueblo a toda velocidad, esforzándome por llegar lo más lejos posible. Cerré los ojos y saboreé el viento fuerte que azotaba mi rostro. Por un instante llegué a pensar en seguir de largo y desvanecerme, esfumarme en el cielo. No volver a descender jamás.

It is a good thingTo escape from death, but it is not great pleasureTo bring death to a friend.

The intelligent use humor as a shield against humiliation. The cruel use humor as a sword to insult others. The irresponsible use humor to escape from responsibility. The fool takes humor too seriously! Humor is spontaneous; to make an effort to be humorous makes no sense.

Marvel is a cornucopia of fantasy, a wild idea, a swashbuckling attitude, an escape from the humdrum and the prosaic. It's a serendipitous feast for the mind, the eye, the imagination, a literate celebration of unbridled creativity, coupled with a touch of rebellion and an insolent desire to spit in the eye of the dragon.

it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

Forget it all, I told myself, escape into your mind and your work, into the place where you are only your living, breathing self, not a citizen of any state, not a stake in that infernal game, the place where only what reason you have can still work to some reasonable effect in a world gone mad.

Books are my kingdom. And here I seek to reign as absolute lord.

One can run away from anything but oneself

That's it. Evasion is key.

But travelling, even as far as to other worlds under other stars, did not allow me to escape Europe and my anxieties. However far I went from Europe, its fate came with me.

We also want to leave our own area behind, our domestic world so well regulated day to day; we are drawn by the desire no longer to be at home and therefore no longer to be ourselves. We want to interrupt a life where we merely exist, in order to live more.

Ils avaient fui les perils de la conversation pour le terrain plus rassurant des livres.

Art, nothing but art! Art was given us that we might not be slain by truth.

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

L'arte è questo: scappare dalla normalità che ti vuole mangiare.

She did, now, want to escape. She had a lot to do; to get on with... there was so much, enjoyably much, to be done.

She could not give him power over her. She gave no man that. "I don't deal in bonds, sir," she called back over her shoulder as she fled for the stables. "They're too much like chains.

Says here there's a reward," Mr. Hooks said. Tallie blinked, then remembered Keith had added that tidbit for incentive. She opened her purse and scrutinized the contents of her slim wallet--twelve dollars and a book of stamps. She handed over the ten and the stamps, then tossed in a free drink coupon from Starbucks. "Thanks." Then she turned and fled.

But I have to get out of here. There are too many things in a hospital that can kill you.

She tried to do what the Equinox yoga instructor said to do and thank each thought for coming then let it float away, but the thoughts were not floating away and she couldn't force them away, not even here, where she was supposed to be able to escape.

She didn't know where she was, and there was nowhere for her to go, and for just one moment, sweat pouring down her face, she felt free.

Just her luck to be abducted by kidnappers who could think.

There's no reason for any of us to face reality if we don't like it.

I'd probably be in another county by now if I'd been able to get the door open, she thought as she reached the top of the stairs.