Quotes About Escape

Leggere per me era evasione e conforto, era la mia consolazione, il mio stimolante preferito: leggere per il puro gusto della lettura, per il meraviglioso silenzio che ti circonda quando ascolti le parole di un autore riverberate dentro la tua testa

By that point, of course, the girl no longer misses the doll. He has given her something else instead, and by the time those three weeks are up, the letters have cured her of her unhappiness. She has the story, and when a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

As long as you're dreaming, there's always a way out.

cuando una persona es lo bastante afortunada para vivir dentro de una historia, para habitar un mundo imaginario, las penas de este mundo desaparecen. Mientras la historia sigue su curso, la realidad deja de existir.

How to get out of the room that is the book that will go on being written for as long as he stays in the room?

Lei ha una storia, e quando una persona è abbastanza fortunata da vivere in una storia, da vivere in un mondo immaginario, i dolori di questo mondo svaniscono. Perché, fino a quando la storia continua, la realtà non esiste più

Lei ha la storia, e quando una persona è abbastanza fortunata da vivere all'interno di una storia, da vivere in un mondo immaginario, i dolori di questo mondo svaniscono. Perché fino a quando la storia continua, la realtà non esiste più.

I do say so. And I also say this: it's a goddamned lucky thing for both of us the gun wasn't loaded.

Angesichts der Schwierigkeiten, vor die uns die reale Welt stellte, war es wohl ganz verständlich, daß wir ihr so oft es ging den Rücken kehrten.

Bibliotheken befinden sich schließlich außerhalb der realen Welt. Es sind abgeschiedene Orte, Zufluchtsstätten des reinen Denkens. Auf diese Weise kann ich für den Rest meines Lebens auf dem Mond weiterleben.

in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of.

A dream, a wild dream of removing ourselves from the cares and sorrows of this miserable world and creating a world of our own. A long shot, yes, but who's to say it can't happen?

Blue sky beyond barbed wire I wish I were sky.

They say a cigarette takes three minutes off your life, but good hashish makes dying seem so far away.

One reason why doing nothing is so unpleasant is that our thoughts, unfettered by distraction, take us to uncomfortable places. Boredom is the opposite of BDSM: instead of escaping from the self, you're wallowing in it.

Whether or not migrants realize it, the impetus for their emigration is to escape from those aspects of their countries of origin that have condemned people to low productivity.

Running from the presence of God has the futility of "trying to shovel smoke with a rake".

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As long as she had flowers, Mrs Harris had no serious complaints concerning the life she led. They were her escape from the sombre

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.

Perplexed and distressed, he fled the palace under the cover of night, leaving behind his wife and child

speed freaks with shotguns." His imagination worked up one horrific image after another. Bobby lost or injured. Bobby sold for half-a-dozen rocks of crack. The next day, Steve flew to Tallahassee, rented a car, and drove west through the

The imagination was the only country where a man could truly breathe free.

A memory stabbed him, as sharp as a blade. He'd floated alone in an escape pod over Ryloth once, spinning high over its surface, after crashing a cruiser into a droid control ship. Another name bobbed up and broke the surface of the sea of memory. Ahsoka. He'd called her "Snips" sometimes. He pushed the errant recollection aside and focused on his task.