Quotes About Escape

I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.

I wanted to escape the drudgery of a small town existence. Any place bigger than Gwalior was fine. I took the first train to Delhi because that was the only fare I could afford.

I could relate to a band from a small town, talking about wanting to get out.

Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue.

Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it.

One of my oldest friends has a cottage on Smoke Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park, and it's one of my favorite places in the world.

The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.

We hid from the Nazis in the mountains. Sometimes there was nothing to eat but snow.

So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.

It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

You can't buy happiness, but you can buy a boat, and for me, that's pretty much the same thing.)

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books.They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

When people ask why I go on my travels I usually reply that I know what I am escaping from but not what I am looking for. If they tell me that there may be just as little soundness among foreigners and that their morals may be no better than ours, I reply: first that would not be easy: Our wickedness has assumed many faces. Secondly, there is always gain in changing a bad condition for an uncertain one, and that the ills of others do not need to sting us as our own do.

There's always places where things aren't so bad: cheaper accommodation, cheaper food, cheaper fuel. You go there and it's OK for a while. Then it stops being OK and you get the hell out.

Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with it's thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything.

Truly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.

To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.

Musical theater can save you, even if only for two or three hours at a time.

She didn't even want to think of how hellish it would be if all the MacGregors made her feel like this one did, all hot and shaky. She'd have to move to the Arctic Circle before the month was out just to cool off.

In the midst of escaping from Imperial warriors was definitely the wrong time to be mentally undressing flying women.

Guys like you can't escape the city. Hell, you a got a blood contract with this place. You're married to the old girl.

We must learn to control the emotions so we have enough personal power to change our fear-based agreements, escape from hell, and create our own personal heaven.

The movies are a woman's only solace in life.