Quotes About Escape

Fantasy is a place where it rains.

Soon space became filled again, and dense, like a vineyard just before vintage time, and we flew on, escaping from one another, my galaxy fleeing the younger ones as it had the older, and young and old fleeing us.

Reader, what are you doing? Aren't you going to resist? Aren't you going to escape? Ah, you are participating.... Ah, you fling yourself into it, too.... You're the absolute protagonist of this book, very well; but do you believe that gives you the right to have carnal relations with all the female characters? Like this, without any preparation..?

the planet, as with a person of difficult character. (Unless the difficulty of character is all on Mr. Palomar's side: he tries in vain to escape subjectivity by taking refuge among the celestial bodies.)

No, Ludmilla has always looked for places where she could hide." "Who from?" "Oh, from everybody.

He covers his eyes, as if pursued by the sight of billions of pages, lines, words, whirling in a dust storm.

Come di tutte le cose, anche del viaggio la parte più bella era l'inizio. Partendo si correva via immediatamente liberi dal groviglio di affari e affarucci che gremivano la vita. Per un istante si respirava liberi.

my stints of employment had been eaten away by the acid of boredom, the drip-by-drip sameness of a job causing my mind to yawn and sneak off elsewhere.

I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...

Our habitual efforts to extricate ourselves, far from freeing us, actually keep us locked in the pain we're trying to escape.

For example, if you feel threatened, the mind instantly digs up memories of when you felt endangered in the past, so that you can spot similarities and find a way of escaping.

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

To simply hold a book, to imagine what it might say, would be a comfort.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

We try to escape as far away only to discover we've been returning all along

She would like to be able to carry her home on her back like a snail and go off into the unknown.

Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

Luckily, the clever pets had managed to escape.

If you close your eyes, no one can see you...

Without books, I would have gone insane long ago.