174 quotes found
“Nurture a desire to be free from the clock.”
“Then sudden Felagund there swayingSang in answer a song of staying,Resisting, battling against power,Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,And trust unbroken, freedom, escape;Of changing and of sh...”
“I climbed aboard a Greyhound bus and rode it to New York without telling anyone, without so much as a goodbye. What was I thinking? I wasnt. I was young and stupid and broken. I knew from watching ...”
“You don't need a vacation when there's anything to escape from...”
“Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.”
“You dont read to exercise the mind but to take voyages”
“Half asleep and half awake, I became lost in a deep span of my version of a perfect world. A place I wanted so desperately to reach, but would never find except from within the catacombs of my mind...”
“In the past I had often tried to escape the grown-up world of sorrow through my imagination- dreaming that a handsome young lieutenant would ride to my rescue or that a great empresario would disco...”
“Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.”
“She spent the foggy day in endless, aimless walking, for it seemed to her that if she moved quickly enough she would escape the fear that hunted her. It was a vague and shadowy fear of something cr...”
“Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the past? I have. Never before in all my long life have I h...”
“Escape is just a will away.”
“Understand, its never been easy to live, when were trying to escape ourselves.”
“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 black land slid by and he was going into the country among the hills. For the first time in a dozen years the stars were coming out above him, in great processions of wheeling fire. He saw a gr...”
“A body can't run from what they done. They carry it with them inside. It fester and spread like poison if it's buried. It gotta be out in the air where it can heal.”
“You can never escape God's Grace because as you run from it, you run to it.”
“Judgment doesnt always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.”
“For every thinking and reflecting man the existence of evil is a riddle he cannot escape.”
“Fortunately, no matter how many times she is pushed down, she bounds up again. No matter how many times she is forbidden, quelled, cut back, diluted, tortured, touted as unsafe, dangerous, mad, and...”
