Quotes About Escape

When I was little, especially when I visited my mom in L.A., the only escape I had was watching movies. It was the one thing that could take me out of myself—let me forget the world I lived in.

En terwijl de trein me wegbracht, kwam ik terecht op planeten waar het altijd nacht is, op roltrappen waar geen einde aan komt en tussen echtgenotes die hun mannen doodslaan met bevroren lamsbouten. Dat was puur genot.

Or he could have dug a tunnel.

Anybody who has spent time in Indian brothels and also, say, at Indian brick kilns knows that it is better to be enslaved working a kiln. Kiln workers most likely live together with their families, and their work does not expose them to the risk of AIDS, so there's always hope of escape down the road.

Many of us like to use runs as a time to escape daily life, to think through problems, to get away from it all. In other words, when we run, we use our mental energy to deal with issues other than running. While this may be somewhat therapeutic, it won't make you a better runner.

T]o give the children a sense of magic. Nobody attends to this enough. They give them too much realism. They can see it all on the box, they can see frightful things there. But they're not being given a world to escape to … the world of the imagination. Children must have an escape line somewhere.

There are no friends, there is no safety net, all the money is used up. The days creep by like beetles, slow and beyond morality. There is no escape. Shame and nightmares. The horror of other people, having to function among them when you are broken and unfixable. There is no escape.

But she would always tell herself, Who needs friends, when you have books.

Who needs friends, when you have books,

As soon as I open this door, I'll be free. FREE! No more goofy cats screaming in my face and eating my shoes. No more biting and scratching and chasing me down the street. Outside this door is a big, wonderful world where goofy cats don't turn into furry whirlwinds that hit me on the head with a spatula. And soon I will be a part of that world once again!

I was born to sail away, into a land of forever, not to be tied to an old stone grave, in your land of never.

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

In a sense, it's all about running away. I've been running all my life. Where I'm going … Who the fuck knows? But that's not the point. The point is just to see how long you can keep going strong. And right now there is no end. The way I feel now, I can keep going for a long time.

Hild was glad to escape the responsibilities she didn't quite understand and roam the moor.

She was caught in what felt like a dream, one of those endless dreams that turned on itself, one she couldn't escape. It unfurled with dreadful lack of surprise. It had all happened before.

Galloping over the Yorkshire moors, wild as a lynx, with Christie Horley. Another life I had left.

She walked alone in the rain, half mad with trying not to remember the soft warmth of Onnen's motherly breast and the smell of her clothes, trying not to think of the glint of firelight on Begu's escaping hair because then she'd remember it always, one more meory to torment her.

In order not to think of the world which science describes, man gets drunk on technology.

Reading is an unsurpassable drug, because more than just the mediocrity of our lives, it allows us to escape the mediocrity of our souls.

In order to escape from this prison, one must learn not to come to an arrangement with its indisputable comforts.

Humanity longs to free itself from poverty, from toil, from war—from everything which few escape without degrading themselves.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

Trapped by reality, freed by imagination.