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Quotes About Escape

Do you ever feel the need to go somewhere Forget everything so you can remember yourself? You get a good way down the road and then the phone rings Not tonight A night for nights Dried blood by the bus stop A car patching out in the parking lot of the market Where the hell could I go? No, I'm plugged in Hooked
~ Henry Rollins
Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.
~ Henry Stevens
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Menny people spend their time trieing tew find the hole whare sin got into this world--if two men brake through the ice into a mill pond, they had better hunt for sum good hole tew git out, rather than git into a long argument about the hole they cum tew fall in.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
When she heard this Sonya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor.
~ Leo Tolstoy
No, you're going in vain," she mentally addressed a company in a coach-and-four who were evidently going out of town for some merriment. "And the dog you're taking with you won't help you. You won't get away from yourselves.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself had no strength and even no wish to escape.
~ Leo Tolstoy
And the dog you're taking with you will be no help to you. You can't get away from yourselves.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The thought of the harm caused to her husband aroused in her a feeling like repulsion, and akin to what a drowning man might feel who has shaken off another man clinging to him. That man did drown. It was an evil action, of course, but it was the sole means of escape, and better not to brood over these fearful facts.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have.
~ Leo Tolstoy
L'autostrada era vuota. Erano gli unici due in fuga e questa consapevolezza li rendeva più amici che mai. Bravman ne era inebriato. Diceva: "Krantz, di noi troveranno solo una striscia d'olio sul pavimento del garage, senza nemmeno i riflessi dell'arcobaleno". Ultimamente Krantz era molto silenzioso, ma Breavman era sicuro che pensasse le stesse cose.
~ Leonard Cohen
A man escaped from his cell is not free who still drags his chain.)
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.
~ Leonid Andreyev
Ik voel me zo vrij alsof ik niet ben opgesloten, maar zojuist ben bevrijd uit de gevangenis van mij leven.
~ Leonid Andreyev
Inner liberation stems from the ability to face life's challenges without drama, escape, or avoidance. The way to begin this path is by confronting our darkest truths and accepting our reality. Only then can we unshackle ourselves.
~ lerner rokelle
It's better to read in the library. Sitting at my favorite table by the window reading and listening to the sound of other folks turning pages makes me feel like I'm in a house full of company I don't have to talk to.
~ Lesa Cline-Ransome
Se fosse stata un'amante della lettura, Paola avrebbe senza dubbio trovato conforto nei molti romanzi dedicati all'argomento.
~ Lesley Lokko
Whatever we did see and endure in those stairs, we were the lucky ones. For some, there were no stairs and no exit at all.
~ Leslie Haskin
Indian Song: Survival We went north to escape winter climbing pale cliffs we paused to sleep at the river. Cold water river cold from the north I sink my body in the shallow sink into sand and cold river water. …Mountain forest wind travels east and I answer: taste me, I am the wind touch me, I am the lean gray deer running on the edge of the rainbow.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
and she always came away with a sense of relief that she could leave. The place
~ Leslie Meier
It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.
~ Leslie Morgan Steiner
This darkness is for sleeping, for escape; it's where I go when the other places ache with light; this is where I curl up and close my eyes and darkness flows like lava, and I dissapear into what, into nothing, into pure dark, into what there is before there is anything else.
~ Leslie Pietrzyk
I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia ' 'The Wizard Of Oz ' 'The Phantom Tollbooth ' the 'Dungeons &amp Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.
~ Lev Grossman
Drinks were a lot like books, really: it didn't matter where you were, the contents of a vodka tonic were always more or less the same, and you could count on them to take you away to somewhere better or at least make your present arrangements seem more manageable.
~ Lev Grossman