Quotes About Escape

I'm forever amazed at how much fun it is to leave. Just to leave. Arriving has its points, but leaving is inexhaustible.

Running away just makes your arse a bigger target.

That's your solution?' asked Wardani in a small, cold voice. 'Take drugs and watch it all slide out of view?' 'Do you have a better idea?' She turned away.

Well, you know, there's a Skaranak saying for times like these: Running away just makes your arse a bigger target.

It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

Because at some point everyone wants to run away from their life. It's about the only thing human beings have in common

Books are not life, however much we may wish they were

Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty.

Als je een goed boek leest, ontsnap je niet aan het leven, je stort je er juist dieper in. Er kan sprake zijn van een oppervlakkige ontsnapping – in verschillende landen, mores, spraakpatronen – maar wat je in wezen doet is je begrip versterken van de subtiliteiten, paradoxen, vreugde, pijn en waarheden van het leven. Leven en lezen zijn geen onderscheiden maar symbiotische waarden.

specific fund, you see. It's a sort of general fund. Because at some point everyone wants to run away from their life. It's about the only thing human beings have in common.

When I felt myself escaping from the earth," he commented, "my reaction was not pleasure but happiness." It was "a moral feeling," he added. "I could hear myself living, so to speak.

There's always a way out. All you have to do is take it.

When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it?

She said she didn't want rice. She didn't want anything anymore. Not a thing. But every once in a while she got a faraway look in her eyes and he knew she was thinking of some other place. A better place. Just once, she told him, I'd like to look out the window and see the sea.

The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. The moment I see that painted black line, I feel fine.

Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker.

reading was how I got my ya-yas out.

Anyone who had anything got out

Boredom is why God invented books.

And as if she had opened a hidden door, I felt the patterned surface break and give way, and the words let me in. I still loved opening a book and feeling like I was physically entering the page, the ordinary world fizzing and blurring around the edges until it disappeared.

When you felt sad or angry or hopeless, a story could help. A story could lead you into a different world for a while.

Amanda filling the doorway, silent, us facing each other like friends or family or like lovers; and eternity of silence and afternoon light. And she doesn't even know about the cat yet. I will never escape this town. Justin Taylor (Everything here is the best thing ever)

Only a shipwrecked person who has just escaped drowning could understand the psychology of someone who breaks out in laughter just because he is able to breathe