Quotes about Escape

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

It is one great purpose of the Park to supply to the hundreds of thousands of tired workers, who have no opportunity to spend their summers in the country, a specimen of God's handiwork that shall be to them, inexpensively, what a month or two in the White Mountains or the Adirondacks is, at great cost, to those in easier circumstances.

You're going to marry me, and I'm going to take you out of here.

He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations.

When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.

The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.

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

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

A secret in his mouth, is like a wild bird put into a cage; whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out.

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.