Quotes About Escape

Indulgence comes in all varieties: a mouthful of gourmet chocolate, a hot stone massage, a week in Paris or 20 uninterrupted minutes to get lost in a book.

Is there a place you can go to break away for a little while? If you haven't yet built your tree house, it's never too late to start.

En mis prisas por salir hacia la vida, me había aferrado de la mano de un hombre cuyo único deseo era que lo acompañara a la cueva donde se escondía de ella.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

Tu non potrai fuggir le mie saette se l´arco tiro, o sciocca peccatrice! –

O tu, stella randagia, astro disperso, che forse cerchi, nel tuo folle andare, la porta onde fuggir dall'universo!

I have spent a great deal of time seeking documentary evidence which would support or contradict the Stangls' story of how they, and others like them, escaped from Europe; and the real facts, it turns out, are neither dramatic nor unequivocal; they are complex, ambiguous and merely prove again that in the final analysis, history is not made by organizations, but by individual men, with individual failings, and individual responsibilities

You don't believe in the soul until you feel it straining to escape the body.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.

Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.

In many languages, even the word for human being is "one who goes on migrations." Progress itself is a word rooted in a seasonal journey. Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.

Progress itself is rooted in a seasonal journey. Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.

Yet, I doubt he would have chosen such a risky life if he hadn't been fleeing an orderly one.

Ah yes, if I could have a magic cloak to whisk me off to foreign lands I should not trade it for the richest robes, nor for the mantle of a king.

One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than through art.

And so the money which to some extent may have saved the situation is spent on various means for bringing about self oblivion

It is both relaxing and invigorating to ... set aside the worries of life, [and] seek the company of a friendly book...

In the brief respite, James tore up part of the flooring and leaped down into an underground vault or drain. Unluckily for him, he had recently caused the egress from this chamber to be walled up because his tennis balls had sometimes been lost there.

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. —JAMES JOYCE

Nobody got me out," Nellie replied. "They just let me go. They think I'm a deranged Jonah Wizard fan. Apparently, the hotel's full of them. A couple of idiots actually jumped off the front balcony. Can you picture that?" "In Technicolor," Amy said bitterly. "That low-down KGB reject!" Dan fumed. "I can't believe she cheated me–right when I was in the middle of cheating her!

I hid myself in food.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Painting is my escape from reality. I can literally create any kind of world that I want — with tranquility and peace. All my little animal friends, they all live right here with me.