Quotes About Escape

Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all

Lezen vrijwaart je van gekooide gedachten

The storm raged with renewed power. Visibility was zero. The general lassitude of all members of the party was still very much in evidence." All the world was snow and wind, and there appeared no escape from its hold.

From the start, they had known that the odds of their survival were long. They might get inside the plant and complete their mission, but getting out and away would be another

They describe the feeling of being online as a kind of anesthesia that eases the pain of everyday life.

Twenty-two-year-old Ona Judge, who was Martha Washington's personal servant, escaped from the President and First Lady of the United States in Philadelphia in 1796 after learning she was to be given away as a wedding gift. She married a free black man in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and managed to avoid falling prey to the attempts at recapture that George Washington attempted against her until he died in 1799.

I just want to not be me.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

Books were safer than other people anyway.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Few people associate words like serenity and tranquility with motorcycling, but some of us discover those mind-states by motoring along on our own two wheels, out in the weather and part of the scenery, on quiet roads of our choosing.

One of benefit of fiction: it puts your mind off your reality when your reality is off-putting.

Somente no mundo real do céu, descobri um uso para o faz de conta. Um benefício da ficção: leva sua mente para fora da realidade, quando a sua realidade é perturbadora.

remember, camp is kind of like time-out for adults. Only adults time-out last longer than kids time-out

Jimmy always preached' Charge a pistol. Run from a rifle

How can you escape from your own conscience, the reality of your own actions?

Banning not only confines one physically, it imprisons one's spirit. it induces a kind of psychological claustrophobia that makes one yearn not only for freedom of movement but spiritual escape...This insidious effect of bans was that at a certain point one began to think that the opponent was not without but within.

The spanning of the bridge between desire—thinking of—and satisfaction—thinking from—is all-important. We must move mentally from thinking of the end to thinking from the end. This, reason could never do. By its nature it is restricted to the evidence of the senses; but imagination, having no such limitation, can. Desire exists to be gratified in the activity of imagination. Through imagination man escapes from the limitation of the senses and the bondage of reason.

It is a marvelous thing to find that you can imagine yourself into the state of your fulfilled desire and escape from the jails which ignorance built.

It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts.

For ninety minutes, I was transported into another life, another reality, another character. Basically, it let me be someone that I wasn't. It allowed me to travel, to be a part of different cultures, different world views, different societies. Plus there are all the elements of movies: music, visuals, writing, and acting. In some ways it is the perfect art form. It is the culmination of all mediums.

I felt like everyone else had gotten this instruction manual that explained life to them, but somehow I'd just missed it. They all seemed to know exactly what they were doing while I didn't have a clue. That is, until I found drugs and alcohol. Then it was like my world suddenly went from black-and-white to Technicolor.

The only escape I had was watching movies. It was one thing that could take me out of myself - let me forget the world I lived in