Quotes About Escape

This is a triumphant mood for a long trip, just slipping out and not telling anyone, and fairly sure that no one will notice I've gone.

But no sooner had I gotten behind the wheel than a feeling came over me that was like being caressed by a cosmic wind, reminding me of what travel at its best can do: I was set free.

was reminded that the South is full of army vets from small towns and humble homes, the military their escape, sometimes their salvation, often their burden, and now and then their punishment.

Visitors from Tucson and beyond would pop over for a break from the routine—an opportunity to buy clay pots or sombreros, drink a world-class margarita

Penrhyndeudraeth

Reading about a far-off place can be a satisfaction in itself, and you might be thankful you're reading about the bad trip without the dust in your nose and the sun burning your head, not having to endure the unrewarding nuisance and delay of the road. But reading can also be a powerful stimulus to travel.

to be anonymous and traveling in an interesting place is an intoxication

As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

Liars...are people who seek popularity and recognition. Even when faced with truth, they always find a way to escape, coldly repeating what had just been said or blaming the accuser of speaking untruths.

But fist, I want you to understand one thing: apart from certain pathological cases, people only go insane when they try to escspe from routine.

It was going to be impossible to escape her own trap, she would lose this man without ever really having him.

Memories bring with them a devil called melancholy—oh, cruel demon that I cannot escape. Hearing

Everything we seek so enthusiastically before we reach adulthood— love, work, faith— turns into a burden too heavy to bear. There is only one way to escape this: love. To love is to transform slavery into freedom. But right now, I can't love. I just feel hate.

Sólo el amor nos permite escapar y transformar la esclavitud en libertad

We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

island of Komudo

To step off the island was to be drowned in the sea.

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.