Quotes About Escape

when I wasn't stoned the only thing that helped me breathe was a book

stopped what they were doing and ran out of doors to stare. The news spread from the prison as fast

He went on, hurting her, torturing her. And then a very strange thing happened. Very strange. So strange she didn't understand it at first. So strange she couldn't think about it, couldn't even realize what it was. All she could do was react. The fire in her breasts and loins turned from pain to pleasure. The ache that dominated her entire being became an ache that craved immediate satisfaction. She didn't want to escape, not any more.

Lovers are never equally matched - do you think? One always overshadows the other and stunts his or her growth so that the overshadowed one must always be tormented by a desire to escape, to be free to grow. Surely this is the only tragic thing about love?

I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether. These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion.

Let us go to bed together and ignore the loutish reality of the world.

You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

That's the beauty of music, art, and video games: forget about your worries for a few minutes; it shouldn't add to them or make you feel worried or sad: it should make you feel good.

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

Help!" he yelled and he lifted one leg, trying to run. But you can't outrun the membrane — he was soon gone.

I began to realize that I could go wherever and whenever I dreamed.

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.

Addiction is the primary way people escape the modern world. Unfortunately, it is destroying the modern world.

I'm going to see you now Papa… you better run...

Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away.

I'm afraid you cannot leave, ' said Zarniwoop, 'you are entwined in the Improbability Field. You cannot escape.' He smiled the smile that Zaphod had wanted to hit and this time Zaphod hit it.

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.

For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

globalization is the last failed hope that, somewhere, there still exists a land where one can escape and find happiness. Or the last failed hope that, somewhere, there still exists a land different from yours in terms of being able to oppose the sense of meaninglessness, the loss of criteria and, ultimately, moral blindness and the loss of sensitivity.