Quotes about Escape

There is a way of avoiding a person which resembles a search.

If one could only get out of a grief as one gets out of a city!

By continually going out for reverie, a day comes when you go out to drown yourself.

Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. That

Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze? A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I was frightened by the thought that it could not escape its encirclement.

That was what the dream was meant to tell Tomas, what Tereza was unable to tell himself. She had come to her, to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had drawn an equal sign between her and the rest of them: she kissed them all alike, made no absolutely no distinction between Tereza's body and the other bodies. He had sent her back into the world she tried to escape, sent her to march naked with the other naked woman.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.