Quotes About Escape

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life's subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.

You cannot be free if you are contained within a fiction.

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

You're somethin' else, Hel. Know that? Dodged the sea toad, got rescued off that damned comet, bisected ol' Bron Elgar like a bagel out there on Cravat ... How the hell you get away from those damn fish down in the Glory Hole? Man, you got more lives than a New York alleycat.

Everything seems perfect on the surface," I told him, "but sometimes I feel like I don't know what I'm doing, or where I really want to be, and I've always had this strange unexplainable urge to escape from wherever I am, because nothing seems quite enough, and I feel incredibly frustrated sometimes, like there's more to life out there somewhere, but I don't know what it is, or where it is. Do you ever feel that way?

Everything seems perfect on the surface," I told him, "but sometimes I feel like I don't know what I'm doing, or where I really want to be, and I've always had this strange unexplainable urge to escape from wherever I am, because nothing seems quite enough, and I feel incredibly frustrated sometimes, like there's more to life out there somewhere, but I don't know what it is, or where it is.

Metallic trees. That's new. If you see any steel dryads, be sure to tell me so I can run away screaming.

It's just that sometimes I get so lost in the places the words take me to I forget where I am and—

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.

Books had always been a comfort to me, an escape from reality when reality got to be too real.

I have always kept a stack of library books next to my bed as a lifeline. If I ever woke in the middle of the night too scared to move or too sad to roll over, the books were my saviors.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you're the one writing it.

On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding.

Menos mal que ni vos ni yo somos cursis, porque de aquí salía uno muerto y el otro con las esposas puestas.

Que la música salve por lo menos el resto de la noche, y cumpla a fondo una de sus peores misiones, la de ponernos un buen biombo delante del espejo, borrarnos del mapa durante un par de horas''.

La repetición al infinito de un ansia de fuga, de atravesar el cristal y entrar en otra cosa.

de que la realidad se le escapa y le deja en cambio una especie de parodia que él convierte en una esperanza.

Que la música salve por lo menos el resto de la noche, y cumpla a fondo una de sus peores misiones, la de ponernos un buen biombo delante del espejo, borrarnos del mapa durante un par de horas.

Die Frauen liebten ihn zunächst abgöttisch (...), bewunderten ihn (...) dann ließ irgend etwas sie die Leere ahnen, sie machten kehrt und er erleichterte ihnen die Flucht, öffnete ihnen die Tür, damit sie weglaufen konnten, um anderswo zu spielen.

Los libros van siendo el único lugar de la casa donde todavía se puede estar tranquilo.

Nada coincide siendo igual, todo nace de nuevo siendo inmortal, el amor juega a inventarse, huye de sí mismo para volver en su espiral sobrecogedora.

Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.