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Quotes About Escape

Loneliness—since I was trying to escape it—was hell; and yet for the hermit who seeks it, it is apparently happiness.
~ K?b? Abe
The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time.
~ K?b? Abe
Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting us ahead, and the death that comes pursuing us from behind. Your trouble is that you're confused, Once you are free at least from the death that comes pursuing you, you can relax and enjoy life as you go along.
~ K?b? Abe
The torment of imprisonment lies in not being able to escape from oneself at any time. I too was wretchedly floundering around, tightly closed into the bag of myself.
~ K?b? Abe
Inima o luase razna! S?lta ca un iepure speriat, ca ÅŸi cum n-ar fi putut s? stea în culcuÅŸul ei. P?rea gata s? se furiÅŸeze oriunde - în gur?, în urechi sau chiar în intestine.
~ K?b? Abe
Por lo visto , el trabajo resulta esencial para el hombre, algo que le permite soportar la huida sin fijarse en el tiempo.
~ K?b? Abe
Casele, plutind în lumina vag? a l?mpilor aprinse, alc?tuiau un labirint de piedici ÅŸi de poteci, întret?iate de-a lungul unicei piste a fugii lui.
~ K?b? Abe
If I'm to be forever stared at like that, I really will end up a monster! At length, unable to stand it, I brushed aside the forest of humanity and, as if taking shelter in some cave, rushed headlong into a nearby movie house, a "market place of darkness"—the only safe place for a monster.
~ K?b? Abe
Loneliness - since I was trying to escape it - was hell; and yet for the hermit who seeks it, it is apprently happiness.
~ K?b? Abe
The mask was no longer a means by which to get you back, but only a hidden camera through which to watch your betrayal of me. I had made the mask for the purpose of recovering myself. But it had willfully escaped from me and, taking great pleasure in its evasion, had become defiant;
~ K?b? Abe
Arrows you may dodge and fever you may antibody for, but mortal grief is a misfortune you cannot escape.
~ Kage Baker
Jedes Buch ist ein Ort an den man wieder und wieder zurück kehren kann.
~ Kai Meyer
I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.
~ Karen Blixen
I general brzo isprazni ?ašu. Jer kamo razuman ?ovjek može pobje?i kad ne može vjerovati u svoj razum? Bolje biti pijan nego lud.
~ Karen Blixen
If only [there] really was a door and [you] could walk through it into another life, where threads didn't snarl and stitches didn't go all tight and tiny. Where people loved you and didn't leave you for someone else.
~ Karen Hancock
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book. Both
~ Karen Joy Fowler
A castle sat in the background, turrets flying a minuscule emblem in the foreground sat a lady, her skirts adorned with picked blossoms A castle, Helena murmured, fit for a princess, except that the prince has escaped.
~ Karen Ranney
Stop, Drop, and Roll won't work in Hell.
~ Karin Gillespie
He's from Georgia," Cayla said. "Where else is he gonna go on vacation?
~ Karin Slaughter
No one saw it at the time, but her addiction had never been about the high, it has been about the escape. She had been actively seeking ways to destroy herself.
~ Karin Slaughter
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose i'm the happy victim of books
~ Karl Lagerfeld
If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through the ear for conception perhaps and a well-fitting hatch somewhere modest for escape nine months later.)
~ Kate Atkinson
Running wasn't pointless, of course. Sometimes you did it to try to outrun your thoughts, sometimes you did it to chase them and bring them down. Sometimes you did it so that you didn't think at all.
~ Kate Atkinson
Our own homegrown evil, I'm sorry to say. And instead of rooting them out, the plan is to let them flourish—but within a walled garden from which they cannot escape and spread their evil seed." A girl could die of old age following a metaphor like this, Juliet thought. "Very nicely put, sir," she said.
~ Kate Atkinson