#escape

Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#artist #because #being #call #cause

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#any #away #come #contact #controlling

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#cruel #escape #god #life #merely

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democratic government #escape #government #obligation #only

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#escape #escaping #feeling #life #prevent

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings. We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#day-to-day #escape #explanation #freedom #future

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be. ↗

— Joel Madden

#escape #go #music #somewhere #supposed

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt. ↗

— John H. Morgan

#been #day #escape #escaped #fighting

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end. ↗

— John Newton

#am #begin #content #end #escape

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#escape #everything #hors #into #led