Quotes About Escape

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.

I have found serenity at Monaco.

The more fame and attention Travis got, the more of a monster he became at home. I loved him but had to get out for my own sanity.

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

Movies, more than anything I can think of, are a great escape from reality. My reality, in particular, needs escaping.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

When you've got the road to yourself, it's the most amazing feeling.

I mostly play one-player games like 'Batman' and 'Assassin's Creed.'

I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her.

I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle gang.

Being on stage and on a motorcycle are two of the only places I feel comfortable and free. Those are my happy places.

I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.

We are the sum of all the moments in our lives - all that is ours is in them: we cannot escape it or conceal it.

imprisoned in the dark womb of our mother, we come to life without having seen her face, that we are given to her arms a stranger, and that, caught in that insoluble prison of being, we escape it never, no matter what arms may clasp us, what mouth may kiss us, what heart may warm us. Never, never, never, never, never.

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need to be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it. -p147

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need to be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it. -p147 History of Peloponnesian War

We're all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their children, or food, or money, or music, or heroin. A lot of people even use the concept of God itself. I could go on and on. I used to know a girl who used shoes. She had over two-hundred pairs. But it's all the same thing, really. People, for some stupid reason, think they can escape their sorrows.

Get away from meeeee! Edgar -Frankiewinnie

She saw an alien bearing down and clasping her to its chest, that long curved head raising, mouth sprouting the silvery, deadly teeth that would smash through her skull and free her at last from her nightmares.

Robert Burton was right: maps are a certain cure for melancholy.

I meant to slip away, he said, busking it now.

The sea is one rare wild card left in the homogenous suburban life.