Escape quotes

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◆ Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

- Ana?s Nin100

◆ If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

- Michael Bassey Johnson99

◆ Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

- Eckhart Tolle99

◆ Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. They're not addictive, and they're certainly not escapist, either, but they're exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works.

- Alexander Shulgin99

◆ You've gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you're studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

- Jennifer Echols99

◆ One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

- Mike Norton99

◆ Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come.

- Philip K. Dick99

◆ A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.

- Michael Bassey Johnson99

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

- Benedict Cumberbatch99

◆ I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

- Amy Plum99

◆ When introverts go to church, we crave sanctuary in every sense of the word, as we flee from the disorienting distractions of twenty-first-century life. We desire to escape from superficial relationships, trivial communications and the constant noise that pervade our world, and find rest in the probing depths of God's love.

- Adam S. McHugh99

◆ Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

- Maud Hart Lovelace99

◆ I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

- Rabih Alameddine99

◆ The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.

- John Steinbeck99

◆ 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 in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.

- Virginia Woolf99