Quotes About Escape

I listen to R&B when I ain't rapping. It's soothing, it relaxes my mind, it takes me to different places, and it just opens up my brain.

I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

When I dance, I escape the present and become one with my soul.

Movie theatre gives a soulful experience.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

Pardon me if this all sounds corny, but when you put on a record, I'd like it to be an escape from everything you do.

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

Nothing beats getting lost in the world of a good book with a fabulous soundtrack.

I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.

Music can be a source of escapism.

Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.

For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.

I really ran away in 1951 from South Africa, where I lived with my mother and father - who was a doctor - to come back to England to find myself, then hide what I found.

Having spent all that time getting away from South Africa, running away from the army, I wanted very much to believe that America and England were actually as free as they were meant to be, not slipping rapidly into becoming police states like the one I'd just left.

Dentists, doctors, surveyors from Latvia wanted to come to England, do anything to get away from the Soviet regime.

My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.

The heart looks into space to be away from earth.

For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read 'The God of Small Things' would know, for me it was a dangerous place. I felt humiliated in that space. I wanted to get away as soon as I could.

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and 'live' with the characters.

Movies have always been spaces of refuge for me. For a few harmonious hours, I could escape my reality of being a girl living on the margins.

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.

He'd never thought of death like that, like it's some sort of other life that you can hope for, dream of. Escape to. That it can rescue you.

Rae Hachton, Frankie's Monster

Where does one run to escape from feelings?