Quotes About Escape

But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'm plunged back into reality.

I suppose it's easier to see the way out of anything when you've found your way out of that maze. When you're stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it's difficult to make any sense of anything.

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.

Supongo que es más fácil ver la salida cuando uno mismo ha conseguido salir del laberinto.

Why don't you run away and leave everybody else to clean up the mess? Then you can get on your high horse as usual and blame everybody but yourself.

I could float and drift and not have to speak to anybody, explain anything, just swim beneath the surface. It was always my escape. It still is now. Family, life, love, search, Cecelia Ahern, The Marble Collector

But I can understand now why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's okay to feel like this.

I can understand now why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach in to the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's okay to feel like this.

You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.

I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.

I kicked off my sandals, put my ice-tinkling glass on the small table by my current book.

Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too!

Charlaine Harris

Any place books are massed together makes me feel at home.

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas. It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt.

I actually hated hunting the first time I went when I was a kid. My dad took us deer hunting. We sat there for 30 minutes, and I felt like I was losing my mind. But in college, I fell in love with it. Football became a full-time job, and I needed an escape. I needed something that would mellow me out.

If ever you want to get rid of somebody you don't want to talk to, just mention God. They're out of there.

Everything is a mess around our house. We do all our work here, but we try to get out once a day.

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.