Quotes About Escape

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

There is no Frigate like a book.

... you're never alone if you've got a book for company.

Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.

Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.

Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.

How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music

Reading is entering into another world and leaving a little bit more educated when finished.

(Remember you always have the option of taking to the sea.)

Stop the world, I wanna get on!

Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself.

sometimes music isn't just a bunch of sounds and lyrics, sometimes it's more than that: a time machine...

when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.

Why do you want to run away from reality?

You can never be lost when you learn to get lost into the blue of the sea..

Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.

Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard.

Running away can also be running to.

Step inside your favorite storybook and become lost in a journey only your imagination can envision.

I love dipping into dreams and sinuously sinking into sleep. It's the freest place to be. The possibilities are limitless and my imagination becomes a weightless wonder.