Escape Quotes

“It was, Jess suspected, the common preserve of all true readers. This was the magic of books, the curious alchemy that allowed a human mind to turn black ink on white pages into a whole other world.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming

“There's other ways to travel."
She was right. He had books, and there was no barrier to the places he could visit in his own mind.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming

“Some children need to escape from places that will only hurt them, or grind them away until they're nothing. And some children need to go somewhere else if they're ever going to grow into the people they were meant to be.”
― Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found

“Sleep...it's the only escape we have.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“My dream is more than just a place to go when I'm feeling left out. It's a place where I can find strength and courage to face the real world. Where I can be bold and take risks, knowing it's just a dream and nothing can hurt me.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“No matter what people said they wanted (Real estate! Stocks! Bonds!), their actions always spoke louder. People wanted an escape. They wanted entertainment, a place where they could revel in wonder and forget about the drudgery of everyday life.”
― Amita Parikh, The Circus Train

“Animals might whimper if they're hungry or cold. But they dont start screaming. It's a bad idea. The more noise you make the more likely you are to be eaten. If you've no way to escape you keep silent. If birds couldnt fly they wouldnt sing. When you're defenseless you keep your opinions to yourself.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“One of the biggest things I miss is the internet used to be an escape from meatspace. Now "internet" is so ingrained everywhere there is no longer that sense of escape. People don't say "g2g" or "ttyl" anymore because they never sign off.”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“[The Lord of the Rings] is not as seems widely supposed about ‘power’. Power-seeking is only the motive-power that sets events going, and is relatively unimportant, I think. It is mainly concerned with Death, and Immortality; and the ‘escapes’: serial longevity, and hoarding memory.

Letter 211
To Rhona Beare”
― Humphrey Carpenter, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“Because if it’s told well enough, for as long as the story lasts, you get to slip the trap.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Sometimes when I had planned the next morning for my escape a word of more than usual affection from her lips made me postpone my resolution. I reproached myself bitterly for what I called a culpable weakness; but this weakness returned upon me whenever the critical moment approached, and I never found courage to depart.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mathilda

“How pure your longing to be anything other than yourself.”
― Kim Addonizio, Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems

“[P]erhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Pray for lightning.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Do not escape thyself, endure until you find eternity.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“And to expend what little energy we have ‘running’ from this reality rather than running ‘to’ it is to weary ourselves all the more.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If truth were to be told, how often is being ‘lost’ a result of the decision I have made to never be ‘found’?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Nobody would doubt for one moment that my husband is a rich foreigner - why in the world would I marry a poor one? My marriage also means that I have escaped the common destiny of my people: the war, poverty, insecurity, unemployment, disappointment, political confusion, low wages, and the feeling that time is running out fast and you can't be certain if the future will bring anything better.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, Café Europa: Life After Communism

“You cant find any Shop,factory or school of building human character without rough journey or hard situations college that comes in life as it heppens to me and other people it will come to you too, not that it for some certain people it for everyone. Human character needs to be shaped, prooned or builded for some work that we send to do in living that is other plan of God so you can't escape it as you did'nt escaped to be born the better thing to do is to pray for it process to be done successfully , I know nothing will stand on it cause it God's will but will going to help you to gain strength you need.”
― Nozipho N.Maphumulo

“Every day I looked up at the sky and I longed for the day that I might escape.”
― Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

“Whatever you do, it's always an escape from something else! If you want to read a book, this is an escape from ignorance! If you want noise in your life, this is an escape from silence! If you don't look in the mirror, this is an escape from yourself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I usually struggle to answer many questions people ask because my mind is always in the future, while the questions they ask are always in the past, or at best, in the present. That is a very factual way of observing the spiritual level of someone. The "what job you have?" and "how much money do you make?" that people stuck in a present time loop obsessively ask is based on what they see, while the "where are you from?" and "what did you study?" comes from people stuck in the past, and with the idea that the past conditions the present, not your decisions. The first thinks matter controls life and the second that life is the result of randomity and chaos. Both represent the vast majority of the population and both are absolutely stupid. As they are too stupid to perceive the future, they call it dreaming, insanity or, at best, motivation and inspiration. They don't know what consciousness is, even when using this word. Thus, every change is for them like a spontaneous miracle, or a mistake in the system that shouldn't have occurred. They look at those who break their mental laws as criminals because when someone is too stupid, he perceives knowledge as a threat to his values. Jealousy and competition come precisely from this state of mind. These subhumans think like a character of a video game that is trapped in a world that never changes and in which they have no capacity to make effective decisions. When they are faced with a library or a religion that promotes wisdom, they close their eyes to escape or read about fantasies, because they are not mentally capable of processing reality.”
― Dan Desmarques

“But maybe people don’t want fantasy, they want to feel they’re in control, that they’re playing by rules they understand and that it’s possible to win.”
― Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

“First, never let your opponent figure out what you’re doing—deception at all times. Second, always leave yourself a way out.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, The Gathering Elements

“If you know how to escape poverty, you are already well educated.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“I studied the stable behind him instead. At least it was big, open, the stable hands now off in another wing. I usually had little issue with being inside, which was mostly whenever I was bored enough to visit the horses housed within. Plenty of space to move, to escape. he walls didn't feel too... permanent.

Not like the kitchens, which were too low, the walls too thick, the windows not big enough to climb through. Not like the study, with not enough natural light or easy exits. I had a long list in my head of what places I could and couldn't endure at the manor, ranked by precisely how much they made my body luck up and sweat.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“-But you don't want to escape from here? You don't have to want to. But I, for one, need to know that I can go anywhere I want when I'm old enough.”
― Natasha Lester, The Paris Secret

“Knowledge is mightier than the sword sometimes, but it's also nice to escape the possible and travel to another world for a while. When this world weighs too heavy, a good story is a perfect escape.”
― C. C. Penaranda

“I saw what love might have done
had we loved in time.”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work

“=Fierce-frightened,= Escape-from-bondage says to her.
“‘What?’
“=A name for you. My name for you, in my thoughts.=
“‘I have never had a name. Even the crazy old woman never gave me a name. She didn’t have any names to spare, I guess.’
“=She didn’t need to name you. You were the only one she had. But I know many. And I call you who you seem to me, fierce and frightened.=
“‘Is that who I am?’
“=I don’t know who you are. Only who you seem to me.=
“The difference makes her head start to ache.”
― Candas Jane Dorsey, Black Wine