Quotes About Escape

This is supposed to be my season to carve my own space if I play my cards right[...] Do I want it? I want so many things, so many competing things. I want to run to win, to run away from myself, to run away from home.

Las Vegas — my favorite desert mirage.

In spite of myself, I kept tunneling under and out, carrying secret, scary, confusing discoveries back in with me until, finally, I got to a place where I stood and looked back, and the walls looked to me like a prison instead of a sanctuary.

The sea seems bound to the deep abyss, crucified, staring at the high heavens, about to escape, violent, bellowing, nailed to its black bed.

I wasn't heading toward a future I wanted as much as I was running away from one I didn't.

Did the primitive Ancestor have any inkling of voluntary death? Or is that an attainment of the higher civilizations, which offer no other means of escape? Let's

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?

That's the beauty of alcohol. If you don't remember it, it didn't happen.

All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature!

The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

The best thing about a vacation is planning it.

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

You got a fast car But is it fast enough so we can fly away We gotta make a decision We leave tonight or live and die this way.

Here in my car, I feel safest of all, I can lock all the doors.

The police pulled me over and asked me if I have anything illegal in my car. I looked at my cousin and I ran.

I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.