Quotes About Escape

Losing yourself in a book is the best

I'd like to quote the lyrics of Rodgers and Hammerstein—something that's extremely easy to do when you're in a library near 782.14 and all those magnificent Broadway show tunes—'I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly!'

We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear it firsthand?

everywhere I looked, people were smiling, like convicts who had just staged a daring escape and couldn't quite believe they had gotten away with it.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. —Flannery O'Connor

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

The sunken place, right? That's where I was. The place where nobody can touch you or hear you scream.

Walter and Bell glanced at each other, neither one relishing the idea of being the brave hero who found the escaped tiger in the bedroom.

Allan decided he needed a little recreation. Something light hearted and non-committal. A quickie.

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.

We let rip with idealism and grand words, but it's nothing but rationalizations of our own egoistic behavior. Not only do we lie to others; we also lie to ourselves. Each one of us lives inside a house of mirrors -- our own instinctive self-righteousness distorts the way we view reality so that we can justify our actions to ourselves. And there's no way we can escape.

Ich habe Angst vor dieser Erscheinung, aber wenn man viel trinkt, dann geht das schon wieder weg.

Weil es so glamourös ist, das Herumstreunen an seltsamen Orten, wo einen absolut keiner kennt.

For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.

think, again, of my mother opening her front door to a Swedish sailor, the stuff of fairy tales: Rapunzel letting down her hair, Cinderella sliding her foot into the glass slipper, Sleeping Beauty awaiting a kiss. All were given one chance to step into a happily ever after—or at least it must've seemed that way. But was it the prince who attracted them, or merely the opportunity for escape?

All were given one chance to step into a happily ever after- or at least it must have seemed that way. But was it the prince who attracted them, or merely the opportunity to escape?

The truth is, when I'm immersed in a book I'm less aware of the pain in my unpredictable arms and legs.

When I shut my eyes in the warm bath, I feel as if I'm floating inside a cloud.

the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go.

He did get one thing right: Sometimes a sanctuary, sometimes a prison, that house on the hill has always been my home. I've spent my life yearning toward it, wanting to escape it, paralyzed by its hold on me. (There are many ways to be crippled, I've learned over the years, many forms of paralysis.) My ancestors fled to Maine from Salem, but like anyone who tries to run away from the past, they brought it with them.

When I was seventeen I went to college to escape my father's impotent rage and my mother's infinite capacity for forgiveness.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

One day in the country Is worth a month in town

She knows that soon she will have escaped into the world of the people better than us, the great objective world better than Shakespeare and Beethoven and Donatello put together—didn't they all come out of it?