Quotes About Escape

That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.

S?owa s? jak jaszczurki, potrafi? uciec z ka?dego zamkni?cia.

There must be some sort of drugs. I'd like that. To stop me from feeling anything, or worrying, to let me sleep. Is that possible

The clouds were so low that one could hook onto them and let oneself be carried away to a distant land, to the south, to warmer climes. There one could jump down straight into the olive groves, or at least the vineyards in Moravia, where delicious green wine is made.

People shouldn't be allowed to live so far away," he said at the front door. "What do you gain by hiding away from the world like this? It'll catch up with you anyway.

The clouds were so low that one could hook onto them and let oneself be carried away to a distant land, to the south, to warmer climes.

He felt the pull of investigation and the pull of escape, and swore with frustration.

But he instantly saw that it would be impossible for him to escape from the regiment. It inclosed him. And there were iron laws of tradition and law on four sides. He was in a moving box. As he perceived this fact it occurred to him that he had never wished to come to the war. He had not enlisted of his free will. He had been dragged by the merciless government. And now they were taking him out to be slaughtered.

Soudain la mer s'est répandue devant mes yeux et j'ai eu la sensation qu'on ouvrait mon cerveau pour le laisser libre de s'étendre après des jours entiers dans un Tupperware.

Partir, un rêve d'exilé permanent.

Kawajiri Hogin classifies those who sit for wrong reasons as: 1) those who sit in order to tranquilize their minds; 2) those who sit to be empty in their minds; 3) those who solve koan as if they were guessing games; 4) those who start sitting, motivated by their wish for escape from this disturbing world.

I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my dread for human beings. I came even to feel that if I had to sell every last possession to obtain these means of escape, it would be well worth it.

the more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them—a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody.

It occurred to me that prison life might actually be pleasanter than groaning away my sleepless nights in hellish dread of the "realities of life" as led by human beings.

I'm going somewhere where there aren't any women.

I have never derived the least joy out of amusements. Perhaps that is a sign of the impotence of pleasure. I ran riot and threw myself into wild diversions out of the simple desire to escape from my own shadow.

I was cursed by the unhappy peculiarity that the more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them - a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody.

That's because I deceived them. I was aware that everybody in the apartment house was friendly to me, but it was extremely difficult for me to explain to Shigeko how much I feared them all, and how I was cursed by the unhappy peculiarity that the more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them—a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody.

Fuera se extendía el océano de la irracionalidad, y lanzarme a nadar en sus aguas hasta morir se me hacía más placentero.

I was cured by the unhappy peculiarity that the more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them - a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody.

I opened my trunk and almost burst into tears. At such times I always sought refuge in a bookstore.

When a person falls to the very depths of suffering—where he can find no escape—he is somehow able to find new courage.

He just wanted to run—to do something for nothing.

I envy people who drink—at least they know what to blame everything on.