Quotes About Escape

Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

Music, my rampart and my only one.

NATURE: Where people go to recharge

Why are we miserable, when there is music?

When you look at a flower with an appreciative heart and get lost in the magical beauty, you really get a vacation from the everyday stressful life.

My favorite place for taking a vacation is found in my library.

Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Me doy la vuelta y le regalo una de mis mejores sonrisas. Lo abrazo. Lo huelo. Me teletransporto a un lugar donde el mundo no gira. Huele a naranja.

En todo largo periplo hay un momento en que percibes que el viaje ha comenzado de veras, y no suele suceder al principio, sino cuando sientes que tu alma ha escapado definitivamente a la rutina, que ha huido de los hábitos de la vida cotidiana, de tu patria, en suma.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

I run to get out, when I have been stuck inside, reading to escape from life, not even able to sit up straight in my tiny bunk. I run to feel like I am doing something, when I am overwhelmed by all the things I can't do anything about.

I think about going away myself, living a whole different life, like I could exist on a different planet and this life wouldn't know about me, and I wouldn't know about it.

All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out.

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

Certain attacks brought him so close to death that I wonder how he escaped it, what imperceptible shock—coming from whom?—pushed him back from the brink.

Das einzige Mittel, dem Entsetzen zu entgehen, besteht darin, sich dem Entsetzen zu überlassen.

In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

The awful thing about a vacation is that the moment it begins your happiness is already clouded by its approaching end.

Hal paling menyenangkan di dunia adalah berlari dari hal-hal yang seharusnya kau kerjakan - Patty.

The spirit of the way is surely there, in the wish to wander through the world in order to escape it and to find others where there is nobody.