Quotes about Escape

If a few people escape from a burning building before the firemen arrive, does that discourage the firemen from rescuing others who are still trapped?

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 find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

I wish I hadn't cried so much! said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today.

thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?" So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing

reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

Primitive man explored the pharmaceutical avenues of escape from the world with a truly astonishing thoroughness. Our ancestors left almost no natural stimulant, or hallucinant, or stupefacient, undiscovered. Necessity is the mother of invention; primitive man, like his civilized descendant, felt so urgent a need to escape occasionally from reality, that the invention of drugs was fairly forced upon him.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax all you need is a book." ---Dr. Seuss

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.