#escape

Sometimes I wish I was in the movies...Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody’d know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I’d just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#escape #running-away #unhappiness #movies

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art. ↗

— Arthur Symons

#dreams #escape #religion #suspense #throbbing-gristle

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 Steinbeck

#church #escape #accomplishments

We should get jerseys, cause we make a good team; but yours would look better than mine, cause you're outta my league. ↗

— Relient K

#god-s-grace #grace #lyrics #relient-k #songs

Death was like love, a romantic escape. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#escape #like #love #romantic

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape. ↗

— Shania Twain

#great #high #music #natural

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#crises #escape #ever #feel #funny

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#escape #nature #put #shuttle #system

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#controlling #dreams #escape #free #into

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

— Wilfred Owen

#escape #eyes #gate #secret #war