Quotes About Escape

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes.

I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.

I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book.

I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

I'm just a little bit tired If you know what I mean Don't want to be in a crowd When I can be in a dream.

We have to constantly confront our deepest anxieties, our emptiness, our despair, our doubts; and there is nowhere for us to escape and hide from them. It is impossible to ever turn back, and at times it seems impossible to ever make any further progress.

Orsini and one of his fellow conspirators were guillotined, and an accomplice called Carlo di Rudio was transported to Devil's Island, the notorious French prison camp in French Guiana. He escaped and later fought alongside General Custer at Little Big Horn. True to form, he survived.

Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, "The Colbert Report," November 3, 2005

Guys that set off to hike around the world are a dime a dozen in California. Every day in this state women tell divorce judges, "He walked to the corner convenience store for a pack of cigarettes and decided to keep going, all the way around the world, and here is the postcard he sent to let me know.

James A. McGowan. Station Master on the Underground Railroad. MacFarland and Co.: Jefferson, North Carolina, 2004

Kat and Will must have been quietly plotting their escape for years, and I'd been so intent on making sure that their homework was done and their desks were tidy and their shoelaces tied that I'd missed all the signs.

Denorah hates that she'd believed that, once upon a time. And she wants to cry for not getting to believe it anymore. Yes, the deer drank milk, and that left their mouths ringed white. Fuck it. Run, run.

Stupid girls run upstairs, stupid girls run upstairs," she's saying to herself, turning to pull Ben with her up the aluminum steps, Billie Jean just feet behind them

Shakespeare snaking from the window to the door, to escape like we had.

Consider Norbert Mayer's poem Just now A rock took fright When it saw me It escaped By playing dead