Quotes About Escape

PAUL GAUGUIN, 1891 (Illustration credit 34.1)

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

I expect you know, with your intuitive senses, that he's been after Lily." "Sort of, yes." "I need to talk to you about him, but not yet." He came back to Daniel, took his hands in his own. "Tonight is ours. I want to forget Othman, Lily, everything. Just for a while.

After what seemed an hour of disorienting scrabbling, I managed to claw my way through the leaping bodies and stumbled into the city beyond them.

You may run from life, Tayven, but it is hunting you, and it will find you.

She said she would welcome an evening's entertainment, away from the concerns of an addled soulscape.

I'm not my pain, nor my bitterness. Nothing seems consequential up here. Even Taropat. I see him as a crusty old man, tramping through the dark valleys down there. I've escaped him, like a spirit.

As he ran, he stripped off his uniform, unaware of the cold. The Magravandian cloth and leather burned him like gall. It was a symbol of all that destroyed him.

If he could shut himself away from all this, hide his being deep within his mind, he might survive.

We had ben away too long, caught up in the wine of the world, drinking ourselves into heady euphoria.

If I owned a thousand books, thought Shan, I need never leave this house. Everything in the world could be see through the eyes of those who'd written the stories and histories, who'd lived them.

I realized it would be wise to leave immediately, before he tried to humiliate and confuse me further.

There was something too realistic in this performance, a promise of horror. I didn't want to watch it any more; I was sure it was going to distress me. It was like some soulscape terror being brought into reality, with no escape of return to normal awareness

For the space of a moon, she fought her conscience, then, beneath the cloak of a moonless night, managed to flee the fortress.

If you're going to kill me, do it now," Daniel said. "Don't make me suffer this." Would a demon care about suffering? "You are cruel," Othman said, shaking his head. "How can you say such a thing?" "Then let me go." Daniel tensed, wondering if escape was still possible. "But Daniel you are a lover and keeper of angels. Why do you fight me? Do you fight Owen this way?

I think she's running from a broken heart. She left it behind her somewhere, but she can still hear it cracking.

Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging waves of the ocean pounding on the rocks or the turbulent splashing of a bubbling waterfall. At other times we are amazed by the immovable silence of a mountain or the gentle caress of a river overjoyed tat its union with the sea. The topography of a region speaks to each one of us--a secret language that people from all facets of life understand and relate to.

Since I learned to read I've used them as a kind of anaesthetic.

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.