Quotes tagged ‘Escape’

“You feel like your head it going to explode and your heart is going to burst out of your chest, so you abruptly get up from a table, embarrassed and scared, and seek shelter in the bathroom.”

— Kate Dolan, thoughtcatalog.com

“I want to stop running away from everything. I want to find something to run toward.”

— Hannah Harrington, amazon.com

“We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.”

— Sherman Alexie, amazon.com

“It's a Friday, we finally made it. I can't believe I get to see your face. You've been working and I've been waiting to pick you up and take you from this place.”

— John Mayer, open.spotify.com

“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com

“You can run away from your problems, but you’re just going to find new ones that pop up.”

— Dave Finkel, Brett Baer, Cecilia "Cece" Parikh, Hannah Simone, imdb.com

“I have to remember that feelings won’t kill me. But running from them can.”

— Zara Barrie, elitedaily.com

“Burn away, run away.”

— Placebo, open.spotify.com

“In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.”

— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com

“Charlotte: 'So, what are you doing here?' Bob: 'Uh, a couple of things. Taking a break from my wife, forgetting my son's birthday. And, uh, getting paid two million dollars to endorse a whiskey when I could be doing a play somewhere.' Charlotte: 'Oh.' Bob: 'But the good news is, the whiskey works.'”

— Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Charlotte, Bob, amazon.com

“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don’t really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.”

— Matt Haig, amazon.com

“I drank for thirteen years for REALLY good reasons. Among them were unprocessed grief, parental abandonment, isolation, violent trauma, anxiety and panic, social oppression, a general lack of safety, deep existential discord, and a tremendous diet and lifestyle imbalance. None of which constitute a…”

— Noah Levine, amazon.com

“The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no good times, there is no joy, there is no happiness. There is no future and no escape. There is only an obsession. An all-encompassing, fully enveloping, completely overwhelming obsession. To make ligh…”

— James Frey, amazon.com

“This is not my escapism. This is my honesty. You are the shot of whisky that turns my throat from a body part to a cathedral. I am broken sparrow who flies back to your window because I heard you like my singing. You are land mines of potential. I am not afraid of the explosion.”

— Ari Eastman, amazon.com

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”

— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com

“If anyone asks where I am, I've left the country.”

— Ross Duffer, Matt Duffer, Mike Wheeler, Finn Wolfhard, netflix.com

“Tonight, light a fire. We'll be flying up and higher, burning bright, taking flight as we leave all our worries behind.”

— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com

“Who's to say that once I run, I'll find that isn't enough? Who's to say I won't end up feeling exactly the way I do right now-not safe, but stifled? Maybe I'll want to run again, and again, and eventually I'll end up back on those old tracks, because there's nowhere left to go.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

“People you have a history with, they won’t let you go, and as hard as you might try, you can’t disentangle yourself, can’t set yourself free. Maybe after a while you just stop trying.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

“You cannot escape your destiny.”

— Ernest Cline, amazon.com