Quotes About Escape

It was not uncommon to see the letters G.T.T. painted or carved on the doorways of cabins in Tennessee and other parts of the country especially in the south. It was a sure sign that the occupants had picked up and were as they said "Gone to Texas". It was a popular expression for those people who had committed crimes or owed money or just did not want to be found.

After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.

It was amazing, even, to think that the only thing left to people in their despair was reading.

On beach holidays, as perhaps in life more generally, the only truly enjoyable time of the day is breakfast.

Les chiffres étaient impressionnants : plus de douze mille personnes, en France, chaque année, choisissaient de disparaître, d'abandonner leur famille et de refaire leur vie, parfois à l'autre bout du monde, parfois sans changer de ville.

Eu suspeitava que o que o atraía no mosteiro não era tanto a possibilidade de escapar ao chamamento dos prazeres carnais, mas sobretudo a possibilidade de se livrar da esgotante e taciturna sucessão de pequenas preocupações da vida quotidiana (...). Ao menos, no mosteiro, dão-nos cama, mesa e roupa lavada - e como bónus, no melhor dos casos, a vida eterna.

Il a sauté dans un bosquet de fleurs sauvages. J'ai mis mes mains en cornet devant ma bouche, comme Tarzan, le roi de la jungle.

I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and, sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it—no shortcuts and no anesthesia.

Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when you´d utterly and completely mortified yourself. Or when you had spontaneous zit eruptions. "Good book?" he asked, taking it from her and reading the subtitle, "A Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad," out loud. But life did not come with a trapdoor.

There's always the literature cure. Take a big box of books out to the desert and read until things shift. Bleak House can cure anything." Lewis smacked the steering wheel. "Bleak House is about my favorite fucking book in the world.

I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

Even prisoners can escape if they have books.

For nonreaders, life is simply what they touch and see, not what they feel when they open the pages of a play and are transported to the Forest of Arden or Illyria. Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else. A tree is a tree to them; it is never a magical doorway to another world populated with beings that don't exist here.

Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed...

I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away.

The best way of preventing a person from becoming a serial killer is for the trained professionals in the social services, and even for concerned members of the public, to learn to identify the little dreamers who flee into their fantasy worlds to escape abuse and to refer these children for therapy.

You are come off now with a whole skin.

el que viaja mucho va huyendo de cada lugar que deja y no buscando cada lugar a que llega.

Vinimos de lejos, de muy lejos, huyendo, pero hay cosas que van siempre con uno, que le rodean y envuelven como un ánimo misterioso.

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One of the most frequently mentioned dimensions of the flow experience is that, while it lasts, one is able to forget all the unpleasant aspects of life.

Nick said. "Failing at school, failing at baseball…" The last part just came out, one last part of this he couldn't stop if he'd tried: "… failing at being your son." For the second time that day, Nick ran.

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.