Quotes About Escape

I can't escape from here. Not because it's too high but because I've nowhere to go.

People usually escape from their troubles into the future; they draw an imaginary line across the path of time, a line beyond which their current troubles cease to exist.

He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.

No matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemeteries...When she felt low, she would get into the car, leave Prague far behind, and walk through one or another of the country cemeteries she loved so well. Against a backdrop of blue hills, they were as beautiful as a lullaby.

They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as physical objects: she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane from the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

The crematory fire is the only way our bodies can escape them. It's the absolute death.

Actually, he had always preferred the unreal to the real.

buku adalah emblem dari persaudaraan rahasia. Karena ia hanya memunyai satu senjata untuk memerangi dunia kekasaran yang mengelilinginya, yaitu buku-buku... ... yang lebih penting lagi adalah buku-buku novel yang telah dibacanya...

Ä°nsanlar genellikle dertlerinden kurtulmak için geleceÄŸe kaçarlar; zaman?n yoluna düÅŸsel bir çizgi çeker, bu çizginin ötesinde o anki dert ve s?k?nt?lar?n?n sona ereceÄŸini san?rlar.

Lermontov became a soldier, escaping from her grandmother and her troublesome love. He exchanged the pen, which is the key to one's soul, for a pistol, which is the key to the gates of the world.

And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I was frightened by the thought that it could not escape its encirclement.

I always dream of some great unexpected infidelity. But I have not yet been able to escape my bigamous state. Milan Kundera, The Paris Review, summer 1984 no. 92

Y un día, al salir del trabajo, no fue a su casa, sino que salió de la ciudad. No veía nada a su alrededor, no sabía si era verano, otoño o invierno, si caminaba por la orilla del mar o junto al muro de una fábrica; hacía ya mucho que no vivía en el mundo; su único mundo era su alma.

He has sent her back to the world she tried to escape...

Porque Lucie, la mujer a la que tanto amé y que se me escapó de un modo totalmente incomprensible en el último momento, es, claro está, la diosa de la huida, la diosa de la carrera vana, la diosa del vapor, y sigue teniendo mi cabeza entre sus manos.

Los libros) le brindaban la posibilidad de una huida imaginaria de una vida que no la satisfacía, pero también tenían importancia para ella en tanto que objetos: le gustaba pasear por la calle llevándolos bajo el brazo. Tenían para ella el mismo significado que un bastón elegante para un dandy del siglo pasado. La diferenciaban de los demás.

Man can not jump out of his life, but perhaps a novel has more freedom.

battles over job and career, over every picture published. She had never been ambitious out of vanity. All she ever wanted was to escape from her mother's world. Yes, she saw it with absolute clarity: no matter how enthusiastic she was about taking pictures, she could just as easily have turned her enthusiasm to any other endeavour. Photography was nothing but a way of getting at 'something higher' and living beside Thomas.

Som oftest søker man tilflukt til fremtiden for å unngå lidelsen. Vi forestiller oss en strek trukket tvers over tidens gang, og bortenfor den streken skal dagens lidelse opphøre å eksistere.

Dar încotro s? fugim pentru a g?si o sc?pare atunci când revelaÈ›ia propriei noastre sl?biciuni ne apare pe neaÈ™teptate? Numai o fug? suitoare ne poate ajuta s? sc?p?m de înjosire.

Nunca fora ambiciosa por vaidade. Tudo o que queria era escapar ao mundo da mãe

That was what the dream was meant to tell Tomas, what Tereza was unable to tell himself. She had come to her, to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had drawn an equal sign between her and the rest of them: she kissed them all alike, made no absolutely no distinction between Tereza's body and the other bodies. He had sent her back into the world she tried to escape, sent her to march naked with the other naked woman.

Si la excitación es el mecanismo mediante el cual se divierte nuestro Creador, el amor es, por el contrario, lo que nos pertenece sólo a nosotros y con lo que escapamos al Creador.

Pour échapper à la souffrance, le plus souvent on se réfugie dans l'avenir. Sur la piste du temps, on imagine une ligne au-delà de laquelle la souffrance présente cessera d'exister.