escape quotes

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They’re not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.