Quotes About Escape

The pressure of past tragedies drove him forward - the need to escape reminders of his losses, and the desire to be somewhere other than where he'd been. That, and a smoldering desire for revenge.

Sneaking in and out of places was a skill that Han had mastered at a young age. All his life, people had been trying to keep him inside places he didn't want to be, or out of places he needed to get into.

There was a fire here, like it or not. Finally, reluctantly, she broke the silence. "Any idea how I'm supposed to get out of here? Or do I get to spend the rest of the night on this extremely comfortable table? Or perhaps more accurately, under it?" He grinned. "Think you can pretend we had a tryst set up in here?" Her mind shot back to that incendiary kiss they'd shared. "I don't think that'll be too hard to do.

Do things to me, Luke. Do things that will make us forget everything going on outside this room.

She lifted the book to her nose. A book had a smell more soothing than any of Mrs. Hawkins's herbs. There was nothing like a good story to take her out of a world she didn't much like.

It's hard to imagine a bigger desert oasis than Las Vegas.

Those who marry to escape something usually find something else.

My mother told me early that whatever happens to you, however unhappy you may be, you can escape into a book.

We were so glad to be away from the house. On the way home we stopped and had a sandwich at Bernice's restaurant and she insisted we stay overnight the rest of the week with her. Gratefully, we accepted. We only went back to the house to feed the dogs.

I exist in the eye of the storm, the calm in the centre of a perpetual hurricane of cars and lorries heading for the M6, the north and Scotland, or south to Penzance and Land's End. I sometimes wonder if they don't go on the motorway at all, that I hear the same vehicles circling endlessly, a kind of multiple Flying Dutchman, doomed to travel for ever. I don't regret for one minute that I am no longer one of them.

Refugiei-me na doideira porque a razão não me bastava.

I want shade, I want shade and anonymity. from "The Departure

A galinha funciona como uma metáfora do artista: um ser imperfeito que produz uma obra superior a ele próprio, enquanto a magia da criação artística é vista como destino de vida e, sobretudo, como uma forma de transcendência e de via de escape da banalidade e da mediocridade.

Quiero poseer los átomos del tiempo. Y quiero capturar el presente que, por su propia naturaleza, me esta prohibido, el presente se me escapa, la actualidad huye, la actualidad soy yo siempre en presente.

I'm lost on this Sunday that's neither hot nor cold, having already taken refuge in a movie theater... I wished

Meu impulso de todos os momentos é ir embora.

Life really just barely escapes me though the certainty comes to me that life is other and has a hidden style

Yo hago aquí el papel para ustedes de una válvula de escape de la vida aniquiladora de la burguesía de clase media. Sé que da miedo salir de uno mismo, pero todo lo que es nuevo asusta. Aunque la muchacha anónima de la historia sea tan antigua que podría ser una figura bíblica. Ella era subterránea y nunca había florecido. Miento: ella era hierba.

There's something very comforting about books.

The aim of Zen practice is not to escape or transcend life's discomfort. Zen practice is about plunging into the mystery of daily life just as it is.

Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.

Toda e qualquer vida se decide na capacidade de crença ou na sua ausência, toda e qualquer viagem se joga entre a pausa e a fuga.

I'm in this relationship for the capes and castles.

Such clubs and bars offered the perfect "third place," neither home nor work, where I could go to unwind and socialize. I wasn't ready to give that up.