Quotes About Escape

The appeal of the islands was simple: sun, sea, and sand; surcease from the strain of life in crowded and ugly and violent cities on the American mainland; the illusion that the world was clean and harmless.

Restraining orders (often called TRO's) have long been homework assignments police give women to prove they're really committed to getting away from their pursuers.

It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.

La liberté, c'est le minotaure en dehors des murs.

For a long time she flew, only when she thought no one else was watching.

There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped into it, we can never escape.

The longer he spent in the apartment the more terrifying the outside world became. He

The thought of escape might be laughable, but a warrior never stops looking for ways to fight.

Do not allow the this reference to escape during construction.

Sometimes we sleep because we want to, sometimes because we need it, and sometimes we sleep in self-defense.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.

What about those men you read about in newspaper stories who walk out of their homes saying they are going down to the corner to buy cigarettes and are never heard from again? This is Paris. I am here. What if I never go back?

Afraid perhaps to come to where I've stopped in case you find into some slow and glowing countryside yourself escaping

Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him.

Step aboard and we will fly through the window, through the sky

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

Civilization proceeds in a direction opposite from everything mountains represent: starvation, hardship, coldness, the constant scramble to survive...People used to avoid mountains, but now we seek their company. We come for the pretty sights, but also to find a place still free from those life-saving constraints. We come to the mountain seeking beauty and terror.

I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.

Dissociation as a coping mechanism will happen more commonly when the individual feels that a threatening situation is inescapable. If you're a child and your family has a lot of conflict, you don't have many options. You can't say, "Hey, I'm moving out." Very young children can't fight or flee. They have to stay.

We gotta get out while we're young'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

cause down the shore everything's all right

It's a town full of losers, and I'm pulling out of here to win.

I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leaves town and drives off into the evening; fade to black. Just the way I like it.