Quotes About Escape

I myself am usually to be found lying on the bed imitating the dead Chatterton, killing time by reading book after book (the only reliable otherworlds i´ve discovered so far).

Martin couldn't imagine a world where there was no time to read.

The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]

Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

Running is never fun. Running is something that you do when there's a man chasing you with a knife.

Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.

Trapnest means "The Trapped Den" Once we enter it, we can't get out by our own means I thought that that name could only come from a man who love having power over other.

No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.

She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.

Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.