Quotes About Escape

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

All I ask in painting is a way of escaping from life.

The real aim of romance is to provide escape and entertainment.

The best day… is the first to flee.

People don't like to be pushed into a corner. When they are, they lose sight of what they are fighting about. They simply fight to get out of the corner.

People don't like to be pushed into a corner. When they are, they lose sight of what they are fighting about. They simply fight to get out of the corner. At that point, reason loses all power to affect change. It becomes as futile an effort as trying to push back the tide.

It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Your book is dedicated by the soundest reason. You had better get out of France as quickly as you can.

I will arise and go now. To a place called Innisfree. And I shall have some peace there, For peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning To where the cricket sings

You can't run away from your problems. They'll always find you.

Calvin argues that a sense of the divine is planted by God in human nature and cannot be escaped.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

Innisfree... I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

A fairy tale...on the other hand, demands of the reader total surrender; so long as he is in its world, there must be for him no other.

They carry terror with them like a purse, And flinch from the horizon like a gun; And all the rivers and the railways run Away from Neighbourhood as from a curse.

Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!