Escape Quotes

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

I was going through a break up. I was depressed... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work.

At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.

There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

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.

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

Survivors told me that sleep was a great escape from the nightmare that was Jonestown. I also longed for bedtime each night at Escuela Caribe; sleep allowed me to forget where I was for a few hours.

I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

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.

There’s one last reason why none of us ever tries to escape. There are a few of us who just don’t have anywhere else to go.

I must apologize for calling so late, " said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

Here was the opportunity to free herself from all those identical days and nights. pg 30

We fell, but we never let the box fall from our hands. Then we ran. We ran blindly, and men and houses streaked past us in a torrent without shape.

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

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

Which direction?" Robard asked. "Robard, " I said exasperated, "we need a boat. I believe boats are kept at or near the ocean.

Understand, it’s never been easy to live, when we’re trying to escape ourselves.

She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it.

You cannot escape God's call on your life. He will pursue you to the ends of the earth!

That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not completely.

Escape is just a will away.

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.

Let me out Aphador.' Penteluck said smoothly.'So you can attempt to run away, I think not.

She had headed towards town aimlessly, looking for the kind of escape that could be found only in a solitary walk through a crowd.

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Leaving the rat race is easy. All you have to do is quit your job, sell your house, and go and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere. It’s staying out of the rat race that’s tricky.

We have a calling: a need to be close to Nature, where she may cleanse our souls and wash away the stresses of yesterday. It is emotional recompense for the cost of living.

So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation.

Escape is very difficult to negotiate, underwater.

And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape.

From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots.

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right.

People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.

I had drunk myself to oblivion, Stepped from the room into a dreamless slumber, My consciousness had parted ways, Taking a well-earned vacation.

An extrovert looks at a stack of books and sees a stack of papers, while an introvert looks at the same stack and sees a soothing source of escape.

This will be the night I escape. The thought repeated in my mind like a refrain, over and over, and I believed it so hard that I whispered it aloud: ‘This will be the night I escape!

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.