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Quotes About Escape

Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape -- all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.
~ Pema Chodron
En los sueños no se necesitan paracaídas ni alas: en los sueños puedes volar.
~ Unknown
If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it....
~ Per Petterson
Later on I heard that one of the pigs had committed suicide on the quay. It escaped after they had hoisted it from the boat and ran straight for the edge and jumped into the water and there it was crushed between the boat and the wharf until it drowned. It did not even scream.
~ Per Petterson
Look away, look away, look away …
~ Percival Everett
Away, away, from men and towns,To the wild wood and the downs.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Away, away, from men and towns, / To the wild wood and the downs, — / To the silent wilderness, / Where the soul need not repress its music.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Running always gave me time to think. It wasn't like practicing with a team, when I always worries if I was fitting in with everyone else. When I ran, I never thought about screwing someone else up or ruining the teams chance tow in. It was a solitary activity, and sometimes that felt nice.
~ Perry Moore
The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly.
~ Pete Earley
I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.
~ Pete McCarthy
Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them
~ Pete Townshend
And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
~ Peter De Vries
You know what I think? Edenists don't get caught in the beyond because you're cool enough under pressure to figure your way out. Well, me too, pal. Laton said there was a way out. I believe him. The Kiint found it. Just knowing that it's possible is my ticket to exit.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Troblum, darling, are you going to make a run for it? Tell you what, I'll give you a five-minute head start. Do you think your fat legs can reach the bottom of the stairs by then? Will you need to sit down and take a breather?
~ Peter F. Hamilton
We've got to get in to get out.
~ Peter Gabriel
The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.
~ Peter Høeg
But no trouble is so great that you can't buy your way out of it.
~ Peter Høeg
For instance, was it wise for Tony Abbott to announce to the House that the federal police had set up counter-terrorism units to intercept would-be jihadis at Sydney and Melbourne airports and that other airports would follow later? Or was it a premature disclosure that tipped off terrorists to escape detection by using Brisbane or Adelaide instead?
~ Unknown
Opportunities to get out of Nazi hands were widest in 1933–34 and again in 1938–39, but very narrow in the years in between or afterward.
~ Unknown
I want to be two people at once. One runs away.
~ Peter Heller
There is no one to tell this to and yet it seems very important to get this right. The reality and what it is like to escape it. That even now it is sometimes too beautiful to bear.
~ Peter Heller
Most of us are never seen, not clearly, and when we are we likely jump and run.
~ Peter Heller
road trip frees the mind, revitalizes the spirit, and infuses the body with Dr Pepper and teriyaki jerky.
~ Peter Heller