Quotes About Escape

so my wife took them up to a friend's on Kinnelon Lake." Not far enough,

Even if I were to succeed in forcing my way into that locked 'room', would that not just mean I would once again fall prey to the ghosts that have been locked away in it?

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.

Freedom is not found in escaping "this" or possessing "that" . . . Real freedom is the active understanding that the world of "this and that" is a window into a higher order of reality not limited by the opposites.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reminded us, it is a 'less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

Can the future be a white expanse? Can you run in, heart pounding? I find I've never given much thought to the future. Beyond that sense of getting away. Derelictions, you see, left and right. Yet here I am.

Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.

I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.

I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.

Reading is not as insignificant as we claim. First we must steal the key to the library. Reading is a provocation, a rebellion: we open the book's door, pretending it is a simple paperback cover, and in broad daylight escape! We are no longer there: this is what real reading is. If we haven't left the room, if we haven't gone over the wall, we're not reading.

You take the drugs to escape your own reality, but in the comedowns the reality only becomes more depressing, and the stronger the substance, the harsher the aftermath.

Judy was in the bath, enjoying its cocoon warmth

My goodness, if you think of all the folks in the world who'd give all they've got to be out of the racket and in a place like this, only they can't get out! Are we in the prison or are they ?

No ambitions? And how have you contrived to escape those widespread maladies?

Toxic relationships are dangerous. You were not meant to live in fear. For your own precious and beautiful life, get out before it is too late. This is your wake-up call!

Sometime I ride for passion and sometime because I am happy and sometime because I am in another world

Reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

This life is like nothing I've ever known. I was escaping from myself, but dam ole poor me, I brought myself with me!

Sometimes I ride for passion and sometimes because I am happy and sometimes because I am in another world

This life is like nothing I've ever known. I was escaping from myself, but poor damned ole me, I brought myself with me!

It's not true that I escaped from reality. There is always some reason in my madness.