Quotes About Escape

I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.

I think it would be stupid for us to try and tell people who are dancing in a discotheque about the problems of the world. That is the very thing they have come away to avoid.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls, when I'm unplugged from everything and can completely immerse myself in the world of a book and submit happily to its rhythms, perspectives, ideas.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.

Even a song on the radio that completely lacks substance is there for a reason. Sometimes, people need a break from cold reality; the song that you really don't have to put that much thought power into can be just as entertaining as something that might take you on a three- or four-minute cruise through the depth of reality.

I went through a phase when I was watching a lot of foreign films, just itching to get out of the suburbs and explore.

I'd sometimes go to Paris by myself - it was an easy two-hour train ride - to get a break from the everyday grind, to walk around a big city, ride a subway, feel the energy of a world capital.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Finally she said, "Come on, honey, let's go to the ranch.

You tell her this? You little [expletive], I'll tell you something….I'll get you." My mother gunned the gas, and we drove off.

Sorrow is there for you as long as you think. There is actually no sorrow there to be free from. Thinking about and struggling against "sorrow" is sorrow. Since you can't stop thinking, and thinking is sorrow, you will always suffer. There is no way out, no escape.

Though I cannot flee From the world of corruption, I can prepare tea With water from a mountain stream And put my heart to rest.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.

Reality is a nice place to visit, but I sure would not want to live there

Though dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

May you be in heaven a half-hour before the devil knows your dead.

Being in charge isn't much fun. Sure you can sleep in late, but there are so many things to worry about all the time. The best plan for any sensible adventurer is to sweep in, take the throne, live like a king for a few weeks and then sneak out in the middle of the night before people start asking unpleasant questions about road maintenance and tax relief.

There is something about a bathroom that feels like a fortress. A closed bathroom door may only be about two inches of plywood, but it feels like an iron bar.