Your eyes, they shine so brightI wanna save that lightI can’t escape this nowUnless you show me how

You can escape competition through authenticity, when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you. That would have been useless advice pre-internet. Post-internet, you can turn that into a career.

He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors.He felt as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts.He was moving from an unreality that was frightening...

So I pulled the sun screen down and squinted and put the throttle to the floor. And kept on moving west. For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where...

I close my eyes and try and shut him out. My fingers don’t want to stay in time. They want to race ahead in fury, plunging into the dense fog of black notes, pulling the...

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.

Even though I knew, deep down, what she was trying to do, I couldn’t hate her. Even when she hurt me, I forgave her.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I’m always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is...

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...

It is possible to escape the complexities, challenges and pace of modern life. All we have to do is close our eyes and picture a quiet world where time moves slowly.

God doesn’t promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good.

There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you’ll miss their companionship and you’ll also miss their disrespect.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise...

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

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 shifting shape,Of snares eluded, broken traps,The prison opening,...

There, too, she would sit for hours gazing seawards. No tiniest speck of sail that crossed the waters could escape her watchful eyes, and as she watched she dreamed that some day one of these...

Only the ones who run are worth catching.

Which direction?” Robard asked. “Robard,” I said exasperated, “we need a boat. I believe boats are kept at or near the ocean.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

Faced with today’s problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I...

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you’re playing.

The last great escape. I was done gambling, done betting on a ship that would never come in. I would cash in my chips while I was ahead. I didn’t want to suffer the growing...

A thick rivulet of lost blood reflects a city that will mourn but never die.

All children want to go to space. Earth only offers parents wailing about overdraft notices and evening news playing in an empty den. Dead pets too. Childhood is a rot. And so they look up...

This is a place where I can escape to fantasyland.

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

Talking won’t change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear,...

Unfortunately, the escape became the trap.

When you talk about escape, know that it doesn’t take place from the front. Hidden paths are always on the back.

Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for?

The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.

Right now, in this dusty anti-paradise, I have absolutely no hand in the future at all.

We all have to escape from this thing called life sometimes. Maybe we use substances to do it. Maybe we use religion. Maybe we use exercise. Maybe we use anger. But we all have to...

An extrovert looks at a stack of books and sees a stack of papers, while an introvert looks at the same stack and sees a soothing source of escape.

Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside.

He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough–I, for one, don’t want to read about make believe misery, too.

How can I escape a cage build by man?

Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again. ‘May I presume to suggest,’ yelled Shandy giddily to Davies, ‘that we preoceed the hell...

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape.

He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.

18 rules for not getting caught. 1-17: don’t tell anybody. #18: not even your clone.

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

Se nu er jeg borte fra byens larm ogtrængsel og aviser og mennesker, jeg erflygtet fra det altsammen fordi det igjenkaldte på mig fra landet og ensomhetenhvor jeg er fra. Du skal se det kommertil...