Quotes About Escape

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.

I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.

When people view their lives as insignificant, they escape using pleasure.

Happiness can be as elusive as a small fish darting away in a mountain stream.

Coffee and books are a simple recipe for happiness.

Today there could be laughter and freedom, but soon the magic would end and they would have to go back to the real world. However, there would still always be time to get under Dak's skin.

Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.

I'm not the type of guy that will make you happy. I'm the type of guy that will make you forget how unhappy we all are.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.

Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne.

Fly me high through the starry skies or maybe to an astral plane, cross the highways of fantasy, help me to forget today's pain.

A pod in the Matrix is looking pretty good right now.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.