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Quotes About Escape

Run , she told herself. Run, you idiot, run. But she didn't. She couldn't. She just... couldn't.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
Holy Prophet PBUH promulgated a justice system regardless of status of people, yet in Pak the powerful easily escapes.
~ Imran Khan
A leitura é como que uma droga que confere um adormecimento agradável aos contornos da crueldade da vida.
~ Imre Kertesz
the confines of prison walls cannot impose boundaries on the flights of one's fantasy
~ Imre Kertesz
La lecture est comme une drogue qui confère un agréable flou au cruels contours de la vie.
~ Imre Kertesz
again he begs his victim to flee for his life.
~ Inaz? Nitobe
Keeping my eyes on the page and my head in someone else's story is about the only distraction that works.
~ Inglath Cooper
I have always felt lonely in the world out there. That is why I escaped into filmmaking even though the feeling of community is an illusion.
~ Ingmar Bergman
So, the whole barn of psychic research must be burnt down as quickly as possible, making sure that the telepathic horses don't escape.
~ Unknown
Hadn't you rather thank Heaven that she escaped what life had to offer her? And isn't it a blessing that society escaped a multiplication of her kind? Come, Julie, death may be the great equalizer; let's not give in to the hypocrisy that it is the great glorifier.
~ Irene Hunt
May the devil chase you every day of your life and never catch you.
~ Irish toast
Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.
~ Irvine Welsh
Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.
~ Irving Stone
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
~ Isaac Asimov
What is the American fetish about highways? They want to get somewhere, LaBas offers. Because something is after them, Black Herman adds. But what is after them? They are after themselves. They call it destiny. Progress.
~ Ishmael Reed
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
The flourishing of bursts of energy dies beyond us. All delirium is expansive. All impulses escape stereotyping.
~ Isidore Isou
Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they are a dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.
~ Italo Calvino
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
~ Italo Calvino
To fall asleep like a bird. To have a wing you could stick your head under, a world of branches suspended above the earthly world, barely glimpsed down below, muffled and remote. Once you begin rejecting your present state, there is no knowing where you can arrive.
~ Italo Calvino
L'aspetto in cui l'amplesso e la lettura s'assomigliano di più è che al loro interno s'aprono tempi e spazi diversi dal tempo e dallo spazio misurabili.
~ Italo Calvino
although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic.
~ Italo Calvino
Tu casa, al ser el lugar donde lees, puede decirnos cuál es el lugar que los libros tienen en tu vida, si son una defensa que tú interpones para mantener alejado al mundo de fuera, un sueño en el que te hundes como en una droga, o bien si son puentes que lanzas hacia el exterior, hacia el mundo que te interesa tanto que quieres multiplicar y dilatar sus dimensiones a través de los libros.
~ Italo Calvino
Escape, is one of those words I cannot hear without abandoning myself to endless ruminations
~ Italo Calvino