Quotes About Escape

On most holidays, you'll find me in Mexico. Actually, on most holidays you won't find me. I'm at a beach, and it's wonderful.

I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.

My happy place is 40 feet out in the Gulf of Mexico, sitting on a sandbar in 80-degree water, watching clouds crawl by. Absolute heaven.

I would really like to go to Mexico.

I've always had fun in Miami.

Oh I love Miami!

My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent.

I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.

Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.

I love to go to Aksa Beach at midnight.

We had great comic mileage in the 'SG-1' episode 'The Swarm,' where Woolsey is running away faster than anybody else.

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

Flying is just such a hassle. If I had a million dollars, I would teleport.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

I feel like every artist has a place in their mind, this place where they exist artistically. And I just want to take people to mine, and my place is called Loveland. In Loveland, there's no war, and there's peace.

The minute you see that everything is going one way, you get the hell out.

When you use concentration to run away from yourself or your situation, it is wrong concentration. Sometimes we need to escape our problems for relief, but at some time we have to return to face them. Worldly concentration seeks to escape. Supramundane concentration aims at complete liberation.

When we feel suffering, we have the urge to run away from it and fill ourselves up with junk food, junk entertainment, anything to keep our mind off the pain that is there inside us.

Again and again we try to escape ourselves, but we fail in our efforts, constantly run our heads into the wall because we don't want to recognize that we can't escape ourselves, except in death.

We run away from one thing into the other and destroy ourselves in the process, he said. We just simply go away until we have given up, so he said. Preference

All our lives we run away from amateurishness and it always catches up with us, I thought, we want nothing with greater passion than to escape our lifelong amateurishness and it always catches up with us.

Husbands who have been deceived and lied to and made to look fools have for centuries fled to South America, never to return. It's a tradition that goes back a long way.

Going After Cacciato

And there is escaping things the knowledge of which makes one unhappy. If truth is what we know and are aware of, in the most engrossing fiction we escape truth. Whatever else it is, drama is forgetfulness. We can forget and forget that we are forgetting. It is temporary mind control. If memories are pain, fiction is anesthesia.