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Quotes About Escape

In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away
~ T. S. Eliot
...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?
~ Elias Canetti
I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.
~ Adam Young
Your home is your jail, Bird. I'm going to set you free.
~ Teresa Mummert
Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
I would like to have a home in the country that I could go to. First in this country and the other in the Mediterranean.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.
~ Louisa May Alcott
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I have been drunk now for over two weeks.
~ Jimmy Buffett
You like the party?" "Is it in honor of anything?" "My cat's birthday." "Oh." She glanced around. "Where's your cat?" "I dont know. He ran away." -Magnus & Clary, pg.221-
~ Cassandra Clare
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
~ Stephen King
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
~ Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
I definitely hope to relax when I get back hope. I will disappear into the forest and be rejuvenated by the beauty of the mountains.
~ Wangari Maathai
Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that; but some place set apart for it.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
~ Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm
When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.
~ Victoria Justice
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
~ Edward Abbey
If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope.
~ P. C. Cast
It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.
~ David Byrne, How Music Works
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
~ Samuel Johnson
Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.
~ Deepak Chopra
Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.
~ Noel Fielding
You know your Lamborghini is on fire, right?
~ Meg Cabot, Runaway