Quotes About Escape

Undine leaned close enough for her lowered voice to reach him. 'Can't you understand that, knowing how they all feel about me and how Ralph feels - I'd give almost anything to get away?' Her father looked at her compassionately. 'I guess most of us feel that way once in a way when we're young, Undine. Later on you'll see going away ain't much use when you've got to turn around and come back.

Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

Joan had gained her feet. But the girl had not tried to make an escape. I'll not leave you, Captain Future! she cried pluckily. Don't be a fool! Curt cried, his gray eyes blazing. You can't... Captain Future! screamed the girl. Behind you- Curt whirled. But too late. Jovians who had rushed around to get at him from behind now leaped up upon him.

Reading, as he has explained to Trevelyan, is for him the purest imaginative therapy.

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

holidays took the poisons out of everyday life.

Awww, 'tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads.

Like the Pied Piper, the street entertainer carries his own mystique which cannot easily be transferred to the stage. He seems to have escaped reality, to perform in a time and space where he doesn't necessarily belong.

Mr Earbrass escaped from Messrs Scuffle and Dustcough, who were most anxious to go into all the ramifications of a scheme for having his novels translated into Urdu, and went to call on a distant cousin.

If I'm working very hard, which is very seldom, the last thing I want to do in order to relax is to be with people and babbling away and so forth. So I go to the movies or read a book or watch any of my thousands of tapes upstairs.

Aware that a man has no more chance with a woman, armed with the offensive and defensive weapons of tongue, tears, nails, and bamboo, than in a river with an alligator, I, for the first time in my life, acted prudently, and fled the fight.

How could he relax his guard when beams of neurotic energy, like searchlights weaving about a prison compound, allowed no thought to escape, no remark to go unchecked.

They had never met, but she had come to understand what had driven Victor's wife to seek refuge in a full set of Snoopy mugs.

Oh Jesus, thought Patrick, let me out of here. He imagined himself disappearing through the floor with a shovel and some bunk-bed slats, the theme music of The Great Escape humming in the air. He was crawling under the crematorium through fragile tunnels, when he felt himself being dragged backwards by Annette's maddening voice.

You would think that anyone would jump at the chance to escape shame. But that isn't the way it happens. Though shamed people are happy to guide others out of their dark prisons, they are always sure to get back to their own prisons by nightfall. That's home. That's what they are used to.

But there's something about music, when you feel it deeply, when you understand it so well, the way Isabelle understands it, there is something about it that makes scary things seem to disappear. If only for a little while -Giselle

Once the saint saw in a vision the whole earth covered so thick with snares, that it seemed scarce possible to set down a foot without falling into them. At this sight he cried out, trembling: "Who, O Lord, can escape them all?" A voice answered him: "Humility, O Antony!

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships.

hamlet of Hampton and there get as nearly drunk as his funds would permit. It was his only surcease. And as a rule, it was a poor one. For seldom did he have enough ready money to buy wholesale forgetfulness. More often he was able to purchase only enough hard cider or fuseloil whisky to make him dull and vaguely miserable.

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Let us run into a safe harbor.