Quotes About Escape

Did you have to make him crash that hard?' Lanthe asked, piping her lip to blow a black braid from her face. 'He won't likely be in the mood for love now.' 'You were the one in my ear, yelling that he was getting away.

Never run from one such as me." Her attacker didn't sound human. "You will no' get away. And we like it.

I forgot all about him and lost myself in the story.That's what I love about films and good books- you can climb right into them and be there. I just hate it when I'm doing that, and then somebody butts in and messes with my concentration.

School field trips had always been a welcome escape from routine, particularly when they'd involved aquariums or grown-ups dressed in colonial costumes.

Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I've got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place.

I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this -- I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.

A relationship could be a place to hide too.

From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help, that feeling of being stuck.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

A garden is a private world or it is nothing.

Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.

She was thinking of doing a little Cuervo therapy.

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

Sometimes you need to run away just to see who will come after you.

Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn't feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad.

When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.