Quotes About Escape

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?

Some people find that reading novels is very therapeutic precisely because it does allow one to view reality from an entirely different perspective.

Books are what I escaped to when I was a kid, and books...unless they're just really piss poor, I get swept up in them and I'm gone.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

others, like me, take refuge in books.

And afterwards, if you had asked any of the survivors how they had managed it, they would not have been able to tell you. It was as if those days in the forest, the escape to the city, had passed in a trance. The mind creates an alternative state.

Besides that, Sebastian liked books —all kinds. He loved fiction, non-fiction, big picture art books, the smell, the feel, and the potential to sit down with a book, become lost within it and only surface hours later when you needed to pee. Books were the bestest of best friends —and they never bitched if you forgot their birthdays or decided not to call them for a month.

the SUV didn't just meet a tree. The subject drove it into a tree, running from a grizzly bear, because the subject was going to take out a half-grown cub with an AK-47 semiauto.

Don't think of it so much like running away, Mom. Think of it as escaping.

Papá, es que yo quiero estar siempre en el cine, quiero vivir en el cine...

Ella vio en ese nuevo enamoramiento la oportunidad de escapar de su realidad e inventarse otra. Cuando cambias de pais y de idioma, todo tiene otro sentido.

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.

One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.

He loved books as other men love women, or opium, or tobacco: they were as a soothing drug to make him forget life.

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

La sua tendenza è sempre stata quella di saltare fuori in tempo dal conforto decrescente degli stati raggiunti, scappare verso le sorprese del nuovo o verso il vuoto rigenerante della solitudine, cancellare le nostalgie, ripartire da zero.

But if I can keep my mind on these pages I don't have to care. I can make this all just go away. Poof. I can stay in this book and then this book gets to be real and everything else gets to be fake and who cares anyway.

The "normal" family is, after all, the source of what the Devil enjoys most: anxiety, mental illness, violence, evil thoughts, fear, and social unrest. What the devil hates are attempts to escape the quotidian horror of ordinariness. These escapes into art, into otherness, must give him headaches because they might, just might, lead to innocence.

In the school library there's an old Book Week poster that says 'Get Lost in a Book.' Well, we do that. We lose ourselves in books for hours and hours—books about all kinds of people and tons of different places. Then we come back, and we bring things with us. When we get lost like that, I think we find all kinds of cool stuff.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

These day's I like to imagine that if a man were to enter through the slash on the book's cover, as if it were a door, he could walk right into the heart of the Inferno.

Typee was Melville's version of this American dream—not the dream of raising one's status in the world as it is, but the dream of starting over, getting out from under, and putting it all away to discover life anew. 6.